The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...
After 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope is still churning out hits. In just the last year or so, scientists have used the school bus–sized observatory to confirm the first lone black hole, reveal ...
The latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope turns a distant spiral galaxy into a laboratory for extreme weather in space, where gas, dust, and gravity combine to trigger a torrent of newborn suns ...
Hubble had been in space for less than two years when its Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph detected traces of boron in a not-too-distant star. At an estimated age of 14.5 billion years, the star ...
"Every modern astronomy textbook includes contributions from Hubble." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For 35 years, the Hubble ...
The Hubble Space Telescope as seen from the Space Shuttle Discovery in December 1999. Credit: NASA In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which ...