March 22 (UPI) --NASA said Friday the Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a spider galaxy, an irregular galaxy, about 30 million light-years from Earth. NASA said the relatively faint galaxy, which ...
The telescope's studies could help end a long-standing disagreement over the rate of cosmic expansion. But scientists say ...
Since 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has offered scientists an incredible view of the universe. It has provided well over 1 million observations. Now, NASA has released “Hubble Focus: The Dark ...
Thanks to the dizzying growth of cosmic observations and measurement tools and some new advancements (primarily the ...
The Hubble Space Telescope, jointly run by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the US space agency the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has stunned everyone for decades, from ...
The ULLYSES program studied two types of young stars: super-hot, massive, blue stars and cooler, redder, less massive stars than our Sun. The top panel is a Hubble Space Telescope image of a star ...
In around 5 billion years, the sun will run out of the fuel needed for nuclear fusion in its core. This will cause its inner core to collapse under the force of the sun's own gravity. At this ...
Facing budget cuts, NASA is slicing funding for a key telescope, leaving the project and the future of X-ray astronomy adrift ...
When the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021, astronomers predicted a deluge of discoveries that would rewrite entire textbooks about the cosmos. Consider this the first chapter.
Each day, solar panels recharged its batteries. At night, it photographed the sky, including the Tarantula nebula, a light source 160,000 light years away, and clusters of galaxies 20,000 times ...