Given that the sun blasts out UV light all the time, Schneider and his peers decided to take advantage of that once Hubble was in orbit. They could then deploy a small “pickoff” reflector (a ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture an incredible image of a galaxy that looks an awful lot like a bullseye. "This was a serendipitous discovery," said Imad Pasha, the lead researcher ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is helping scientists ... A gas trail links them, but the data now shows a gap of about 130,000 light-years. You could fit our entire Milky Way galaxy between them ...

But in 2003, Hubble detected a massive planet orbiting an ancient star in the M4 globular cluster, which is about 5,600 light-years distant in the Milky Way. Globular clusters are extremely old ...

Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope ... and it's an eye-watering 567 million light-years away from Earth. Yale astronomer Imad Pasha was reviewing ground-based imaging data from the DESI Legacy ...

Hubble captured an exploding star about 650 million light-years from Earth. The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation ...

ZURICH - Retired Olympic champions Madison Hubbell and Gabriella Papadakis plan to skate together at events in a bid to help pave the way for same-sex pairs to compete officially. France's ...

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the planet ... it appears darker because high altitude haze particles absorb light at these wavelengths. The reddish, wavy polar hazes are absorbing ...

Officials emphasized that Hubble itself continues to perform well despite its age and issues like a gyro failure that led NASA in June to switch to a reduced single-gyro mode last June.