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Our expanding universe! Hubble builds on his earlier discovery that the Milky Way Galaxy is but one of many galaxies in our Universe to find that the Universe is expanding. More 1929 News →

Einstein's death! The debate rages between whether the Big Bang and Steady State correctly describes the origin of the universe. More 1955 News →

Light from the Big Bang! Penzias and Wilson discover the Cosmic Microwave Background, the remnant radiation from the very early universe, which makes the case for the Big Bang Theory. More 1965 News →

The universe's baby picture! The COBE mission measures fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background, which explain structure in our universe and confirm the role of inflation. More 1993 News →

Dark energy! The supernova distance scale leads to the discovery of dark energy in 1997, a puzzling new component of our universe whose nature remains a mystery in 2006. More 2006 News →

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