On the night of Oct. 5 to 6, 1923, Edwin Hubble discovered a new star — and revealed the utter vastness of the universe. Hubble was looking at the cosmos with the 100-inch Hooker telescope at the ...

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 ...

Till the end of the 20th century, scientists expected the universe to accelerate rapidly immediately after the Big Bang, and ...

AI is generating new hope for infertility. About 10% of men with infertility have azoospermia, a low amount of sperm in semen. It’s a challenge for human technicians to detect those rare sperm, but ...

The experience of Deepti Sharma was on full display as she struck a composed half-century alongside debutant Amanjot Kaur before taking a decisive three-wicket haul to help India overcome early ...

“What’s up in the sky?” is a recurring feature and publishes on the first of every month. You can find it on WTOP’s The Space Place. Email Greg your space questions and he might answer them in the ...

The two keys to Edwin Hubble's breakthrough discovery were forged by others in the 1910s. The first key, the period-luminosity scale discovered by Henrietta Leavitt, allowed astronomers to calculate ...

The rate r, in the context of NASA spacecraft measurements, is a generalized term representing various types of rates that are crucial in different scientific disciplines. The specific definition of r ...