Once described as the most important telescope in history after the original built by Galileo, the Hubble Space Telescope has ...

A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, known as NGC 5643, is ...

Astronomers have discovered over a thousand photos of asteroids that had been hiding in Hubble images, unnoticed until now.

Astronomers have used the unique capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to peer closer than ever into the throat of an ...

NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the outer planets through a program called OPAL (Outer Planet ...

By the mid-to-late 2030s, Hubble’s orbital distance from the Earth would have become too ... given unique access to images from both the visible light spectrum (from Hubble) and the infrared ...

Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer ...

But 35 years after its launch in 1990, the telescope’s life is expected to come to an end over the next decade, as its parts fail, sending it crashing back down to Earth. By the mid-to-late 2030s, ...

Hubble's closest view of quasar 3C 273 reveals unique features, including an L-shaped filament and high-speed jets.

On December 7, the “king of planets” will line up with the Earth and sun in an event known as opposition. It will be visible ...