The Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990 and marks 36 years in space later this month. Each year, NASA shares a photo taken by Hubble to celebrate the space telescope's anniversary. The photos show ...

The combined observations in visible and infrared light reveal new details about the planet's atmosphere and rings. Hubble's images help track seasonal changes, while Webb's infrared vision probes ...

A side-by-side-comparison of photos captured of Saturn from the Webb telescope and the Hubble telescope. (NASA/ESA/CSA) The ESA, NASA and CSA have released new images of Saturn captured by the James ...

NASA has released new Hubble telescope images of the Crab Nebula — taken 25 years after the iconic observatory first gazed at the colorful cosmic crustacean. These new images reveal the changing ...

In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it passed close to the sun. By Robin George Andrews Astronomers on Wednesday ...

For years now, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has had its fair share of brushes with death. The groundbreaking observatory launched into low-Earth orbit 36 years ago, and it’s now been operational two ...

It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's happening. Two of our best ways of measuring the cosmic expansion rate, the ...

Hubble image of the Egg Nebula. A disc of gas and dust surrounded by beams of light and concentric rings of dust. (SA / Hubble & NASA, B. Balick (University of Washington)) Hubble may no longer be the ...

On April 24, 1990, humanity launched a scientific revolution. I mean “launched” literally: on that date the space shuttle Discovery roared into the sky with the Hubble Space Telescope nestled in its ...

The universe is so vast, and the difficulty of discovering all that there is out in the cosmos is so great, that one might as well count all the grains of sand in the Sahara. But now, with the help of ...