Thirty-five years after its launch into space, the Hubble Space Telescope is still wowing us with its views of the universe, and the cosmic mysteries it is helping unlock. On April 24, 1990, the Space ...

A search for the universe's very first stars has pushed the Hubble Space Telescope beyond its limits, revealing never-before-seen sights and leading astronomers to the realization that the first stars ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has measured the largest object in the solar system ever seen since the discovery of Pluto 72 years ago. Approximately half the size of Pluto, the icy world 2002 LM60, ...

The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope has given astronomers the best ever three-dimensional view of the deep Universe. After staring at the Hubble Deep Field South region for only 27 hours ...

Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two large, hot stars brushed tantalizingly close to Earth's sun. They left behind a trace in ...

In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the Hubble Space Telescope's research program, was paid two visits by the renowned ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has played an invaluable role for space exploration over the last 22 years, but, unsurprisingly, it's getting a little long in the tooth. To continue pushing the limits of ...

On Nov. 20, 1889, Edwin Hubble was born in Marshfield, Missouri. His 1923 observations of the Andromeda Galaxy and a Cepheid ...