Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place.

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...

The most recent measurement of a nearby galaxy cluster is deepening a disagreement about how fast the universe is expanding — ...

A Princeton team uncovered a surprising chiral quantum state in a supposedly non-chiral material, shedding light on elusive ...

NASA estimates that the Hubble Space Telescope has about 10 years of useful life before it burns up in an uncontrolled ...

The world's most famous telescope ... NASA dispatched five space shuttle servicing missions to Hubble, with the last in 2009. Hubble famously launched with a flawed mirror that blurred its ...

During its 35 years of orbiting the Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope has transmitted endless streams of magnificent images, confirmed the existence of "dark matter," and helped track a vagabond ...

On April 25, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed into Earth’s orbit, beginning a decades-long venture into making ground-breaking discoveries and capturing images of the universe.

NASA, therefore, needed the Hubble Space Telescope, construction of which was also kicked off in the 1970s, to be a roaring success. But the initial results were not good. While replacing Hubble's ...

Now the most well-recognized and scientifically productive astronomical observatory in history, the Hubble Space Telescope ... primary mirror. Fortunately, the telescope was designed to be ...