A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a record-smashing galaxy wrapped in 9 rings of stars — along with ...

NASA's storied space shuttle program experienced extraordinary ... On April 24, 1990, Discovery launched the Hubble Space Telescope, providing humanity with unprecedented views of the cosmos.

It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which ...

The eight ripples seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in this cosmic scene marks the most ever seen in any galaxy, and data ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

That's one advantage of having a space telescope in orbit for so long: Hubble was launched from the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990, and its long service has enabled it to capture a huge ...

HH 30, a fascinating Herbig-Haro object, serves as a cosmic laboratory for studying star formation and planetary evolution.

Yet, a century ago, its discovery by ... The marvelous telescope made "Hubble" a household word, synonymous with wonderous astronomy. Today, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope pushes the frontiers ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) 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 ...