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

Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope, tucked onboard the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope had a ringside view of the ... A panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away, requiring over 600 Hubble overlapping ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space ... across the Andromeda galaxy, marking the largest ever portrait assembled from Hubble telescope ...

Arp 184’s single broad arm hints at a unique past, earning it a place in a famous catalog of peculiar galaxies.

Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble ... space and, in the distant future, our Milky Way galaxy will likely collide with our neighbor, Andromeda.

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24 ... the first confirmation that the Andromeda Galaxy will collide with our Milky Way Galaxy, and many more famous firsts. In celebration of its ...

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 ...

The telescope journeyed into space attached to the space ... was named after astronomer Edwin Hubble, who studied the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy using the Mount Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, which incorporates six different wavelengths of light. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might ...