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

The subject of space exploration has been one of the most enigmatic and interesting topics of all time. When taught about ...

In its quest to chart the evolution of the universe, ESA’s space telescope has already amassed a massive catalog of galaxies and gravitational lenses.

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

The image was captured by the world's most powerful solar telescope, which takes 2D snapshots of the sun at specific ...

Space exploration is meant to create a positive future. The legacy of Apollo, and of our robot explorers in the solar system ...

Super-Earths can exist in wider orbits around their parent stars than was previously believed, suggesting these Earth-like ...

"Before Hubble, no generation ever had access to unimaginably vibrant views of space, stretching almost all the way back to ...

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's largest solar telescope, can see the sun in unprecedented detail. Here is ...

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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

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