From spellbinding images to groundbreaking scientific discoveries, we look back on some of Hubble's most exciting milestones.

"We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the surrounding highly shocked rock material into ...

Astronomers have spotted a zombie star, SGR 0501+4516, speeding through the Milky Way. This magnetar has an incredibly strong ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space on April 24, 1990, ushering an array of scientific discoveries for the past 35 years.

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

The Hubble tension, a long-standing puzzle in cosmology, arises from conflicting measurements of the universe’s expansion ...

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

A bold new theory suggests the universe didn’t begin with a single Big Bang, but instead unfolds through a series of ...

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

Apr. 16, 2025 — Researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding its surface; Scientists have analyzed a ...

A new approach suggests that a tiny spin of the universe throughout space might reconcile those conflicting numbers. If the ...

A slowly spinning universe could resolve a puzzle in physics known as the Hubble tension, a new model suggests.