Hubble Space Telescope
A New Survey Takes the Hubble Deep Field to the Next Level, Analyzing Distance and Properties of 1,600 Galaxies
A new survey using the ESO's Very Large Telescope found 72 never-before-seen galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field data.
Hubble Spots Unique Object in the Main Asteroid Belt
An international team of scientists recently used the Hubble space telescope to spot a unique binary asteroid that behaves like…
Hubble Spots Pitch Black Hot Jupiter that “Eats Light”
New observations of WASP-12b conducted with the Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the planet's sun-facing side "eats light".
Galaxies Swell due to Explosive Action of New Stars
A new study by an international team of scientists has revealed that modern galaxy shapes may be the result of…
Hubble Spots First Indications of Water on TRAPPIST-1s Planets
A new study by an international team of astronomers indicates that the outermost planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system could still…
Sunshield Layers Installed on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope as Mirror Cryo Cooling Testing Commences
The complex multilayered sunshield that will protect the delicate optics and state of the art infrared science instruments of NASA’s…
Hubble Sees Tiny Phobos Orbiting Mars
In May of 2016, when Mars was making its closest pass to Earth in over a decade, Hubble captured images…
Hubble Finds a Dead Galaxy that was Finished Making Stars Just a Few Billion Years After the Big Bang
Relying on Hubble and gravitational lensing, a team of astronomers made the unexpected discovery of a galaxy that ceased star…
Astronomers Measure the Mass of a White Dwarf, and Prove Einstein was Right… Again
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of NASA astronomers has repeated an old experiment that was used to confirm…
Star Should Have Gone Supernova, But it Imploded Into a Black Hole Instead
While viewing a massive star in the Fireworks Galaxy that was expected to go supernova, a team of astrophysicists instead…