Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

Stranded astronauts and celebrity space tourism have piqued interest in space — and a photography exhibition in the museum is ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...

Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.

A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star ...

Discover the Bullseye Galaxy with nine rings, a potential giant low surface brightness galaxy, through groundbreaking ...

Earth is the only planet in the known universe that has the right combination of water, atmosphere, temperature, and chemical ...

Apr. 16, 2025 — Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar ...

A team of astronomers has detected what they call the most promising signs to date of a possible biosignature, or signs of ...