On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...

To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

When the Eaton Fire flared up Jan. 9, flames climbed to the summit of Mount Wilson northeast of LA. What happened next was a ...

Shapley argued the opposite. Hubble enters the fray Edwin Hubble joined the Mount Wilson Observatory team in California in ...

The long-closed, 1920s-era observatory in Lake Angelus is important to astronomy buffs. But its private ownership has complicated their hopes for the property's future.

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it — the flickering star is 2.2 million ...

After returning from injury and taking the reins of the starting job in Week 7, Russell Wilson provided a massive upgrade for the Pittsburgh Steelers and it looked like he was almost a lock to ...

Wilson, a 5,710-foot peak in the San Gabriel Mountains – and the Mount Wilson Observatory, an astronomical observatory that houses some very important telescopes and was conceived and founded in 1904 ...