Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures IC 3225 with a comet-like tail of gas streaming from the galaxy's central disk as it travels speedily past its galactic neighbors. "The scenes ...

Proving its worth despite its age yet again, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a peculiar galaxy in space.

It essentially made Hubble into a new telescope. "ACS has roughly ten times the discovery power of the previous camera," says Mario Livio, astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in ...

The first major optical telescope in space, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is most famous for the iconic and beautiful images it has brought us of distant galaxies. Hubble’s launch in 1990 was ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope are at the dawn of a new era in exploring the universe. With two powerful new instruments, added to Hubble in February 1997 by the crew of the Space ...

The universe is home to many fascinating objects. R Aquarii is a binary star system with a red giant and a white dwarf. Omega Centauri is a globular cluster with millions of stars. M87 is a galaxy ...

From Hubble to the James Webb Space Telescope, this is the latest on the groundbreaking images our greatest observatories capture each day. By Briley Lewis By Andrew Paul By Laura Baisas By Briley ...

One of the greatest astronomer's, who changed our entire understanding of the universe, was born 135 years ago today ...