On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

In October 1923, Edwin Hubble utilized the 100-inch Hooker telescope to photograph the Andromeda Nebula, identifying a variable star within it. Hubble applied the known period-luminosity relationship ...

Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

Two French mathematicians, West London-based Olivier Bonnassies, 59, and Michel-Yves Bolloré, 79, from Paris, say 'Science is ...

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Science history On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular ...

Over the course of human history, perhaps no single object in the night sky has drawn more attention than the Andromeda Galaxy, which the 10th-century Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dubbed a ...

Traditionally, science has been the counterargument for the existence of God. But mathematicians Olivier Bonnassies and ...

The cluster can offer fresh insights into how stars of all sizes form and evolve. Star clusters are among the many objects observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. These gravitationally bound groups of ...

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the ...

It was here, surely with the help of this lovely library collection, that Hale invented the spectrohelioscope, which you can ...