Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed an infant star 20 times larger than the sun setting interstellar ...

After 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope is still churning out hits. In just the last year or so, scientists have used the school bus–sized observatory to confirm the first lone black hole, reveal ...

One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the universe's rate of expansion. Scientists know it's expanding, ...

NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope have recently released a breathtaking new image of NGC 2835, a spiral galaxy located 35 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. This latest photo, ...

The latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope turns a distant spiral galaxy into a laboratory for extreme weather in space, where gas, dust, and gravity combine to trigger a torrent of newborn suns ...

On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched onboard Space Shuttle Discovery, and the next day was deployed in space. It was the first astronomical observatory placed in orbit around ...

Hubble had been in space for less than two years when its Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph detected traces of boron in a not-too-distant star. At an estimated age of 14.5 billion years, the star ...

Just because your space telescope is serviceable doesn't mean it's easy to service. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Hubble ...