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What it is: An open cluster of stars called NGC 346 Where it is: 210,000 light-years away, in the constellation Tucana When it was shared: Dec. 16, 2024 Why it's [...]

The (https://www.livescience.com/tag/hubble-space-telescope) Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a rare 'blue lurker' star that has been feeding on material from its two conjoined siblings. The fast-spinning star provides a detailed look [...]

The Hubble Space Telescope has finally completed a stunning mosaic of the Milky Way's closest cosmic companion, the (https://www.space.com/15590-andromeda-galaxy-m31.html) Andromeda Galaxy -- having spent more than a decade snapping the [...]

What it is: Spiral galaxy UGC 10043 Where it is: 150 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens When it was shared: December 12, 2024 Why it's so special: This [...]

What it is: Our solar system's four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune Where it is: From about 365 million to 2.8 billion miles (587 million to 4.5 [...]

What it is: An emission nebula, or star-forming region, named Sharpless 2-106 Where it is: 2,000 light-years away, in the constellation Cygnus When it was shared: December 2011 Why it's [...]

The (https://www.livescience.com/tag/james-webb-space-telescope) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just solved a 20-year-old mystery about how ancient stars could host massive planets. In the early 2000s, the Hubble Space Telescope observed [...]

Nearly 35 years after its launch, the (https://www.livescience.com/tag/hubble-space-telescope) Hubble Space Telescope is still revealing new things about the cosmos. In a newly released series of images, scientists used Hubble to [...]

New observations made by the (https://www.livescience.com/james-webb-space-telescope) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have further cemented one of the most bizarre observations in all of physics -- that the universe expanded at [...]

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a gigantic 'blowtorch-like' jet blasting out of a black hole -- and it seems to be causing nearby stars to explode. The [...]

What it is: A 3D visualization of the 'Pillars of Creation,' an iconic image of interstellar gas and dust taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. Where it is: [...]

What it is: NGC 1546, a spiral galaxy Where it is: 50 million light-years away, in the Southern Hemisphere constellation Dorado When it was shared: June 18, 2024 Why it's [...]

NASA's (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-hubble-space-telescope-watches-distant-star-explode-and-die-2022-11) Hubble Space Telescope is getting more satellites ruining its images, a new study found. Elon Musk's (https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-internet-never-intended-weaponized-ukraine-war-gwynne-shotwell-2023-2) Starlink constellation is a major driver of satellite crowding in Earth's [...]

The James Webb Space Telescope can capture a more complete view of galaxies, stars, and planets. The powerful telescope is 100 times stronger than its predecessor, Hubble, and uses infrared [...]

(https://www.businessinsider.com/asteroid-nasa-dart-impacted-looks-like-comet-hubble-photo-reveals-2022-10) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a star that exploded and died 11 billion years ago. A massive galaxy cluster warped light from that (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-detects-brightest-explosion-ever-recorded-star-collapsing-black-hole-2022-10) supernova into three reflections. The [...]

(https://www.businessinsider.com/most-striking-photos-from-james-webb-space-telescopes-first-100-days) NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is 100 times stronger than the (https://www.businessinsider.com/asteroid-nasa-dart-impacted-looks-like-comet-hubble-photo-reveals-2022-10) Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble showed astronomers a single galaxy in the early universe, but (https://www.businessinsider.com/webb-telescope-photos-show-pillars-of-creation-and-galaxy-clusters-2022-10) JWST revealed [...]

NASA's (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-spacex-announcement-billionaire-spaceflight-hubble-space-telescope-2022-9) Hubble Space Telescope captured a comet-like forked tail streaming from the asteroid Dimorphos. NASA's (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-confirms-dart-probe-crash-moved-asteroid-2022-10) DART spacecraft (https://www.businessinsider.com/watch-video-moment-nasa-dart-spacecraft-crashed-into-asteroid-2022-9) slammed into the asteroid in September, as practice for (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-dart-mission-cant-protect-earth-without-surveilling-asteroids-2022-9) [...]

NASA released the (https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-james-webb-space-telescope-jupiter-auroras-and-rings-2022-8) James Webb Space Telescope's new image of the Pillars of Creation on Wednesday. The famous stellar nursery is within the vast Eagle Nebula 6,500 light-years away. [...]

(https://www.businessinsider.com/compare-human-launch-rockets-sizes-sls-starship-soyuz-falcon-shepard-2022-9) NASA is announcing a potential collaboration related to (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-spacex-administrator-bill-nelson-boeing-starliner-rocket-elon-musk-2022-9) SpaceX, a (https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-discovers-urine-leak-on-crew-dragon-spaceships-2021-10) billionaire, and the (https://www.businessinsider.com/images-show-james-webb-space-telescope-stronger-sharper-than-hubble-2022-7) Hubble Space Telescope. Veteran space reporters speculated on Twitter that the announcement could [...]

NASA released new snaps of Jupiter taken by the (https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-james-webb-space-telescope-jupiter-auroras-and-rings-2022-8) James Webb Space Telescope in August. The (https://www.businessinsider.com/webb-infared-early-universe-hubble-ultraviolet-insights-breathtaking-images-2022-8) Hubble Space Telescope has also taken Jupiter images, but Webb reveals details [...]

Since its launch in 1990, the (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-first-hubble-space-telescope-photos-since-mystery-glitch-2021-7) Hubble Space Telescope has made revolutionary achievements in astronomy. The new (https://www.businessinsider.com/james-webb-team-unveils-nasa-space-telescope-first-images-2022-7) Ja (https://www.businessinsider.com/james-webb-team-unveils-nasa-space-telescope-first-images-2022-7) mes Webb Space Telescope is popular, but Hubble has [...]

NASA and the European Space Agency released new (https://www.businessinsider.com/james-webb-team-unveils-nasa-space-telescope-first-images-2022-7) James Webb Space Telescope images of the Cartwheel Galaxy on Tuesday. The Cartwheel Galaxy is a ring galaxy 500 million light-years [...]

(https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-detects-water-on-distant-planet-2022-7) NASA's James Webb Space Telescope wowed astronomers with its sharp, colorful (https://www.businessinsider.com/james-webb-team-unveils-nasa-space-telescope-first-images-2022-7) first images. The (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-hubble-space-telescope-photographs-three-galaxies-colliding-2022-2) Hubble Space Telescope imaged the same sights, but JWST reveals details that were [...]

The first picture of the James Webb Space Telescope was released Monday. It shows space in unprecedented resolution, a huge advance on the 32-year old Hubble telescope. More spectacular photos [...]

A comet 80 miles in width is barreling toward the sun, according to data captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The comet is hurtling toward the inner solar system at [...]

(https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-satellite-images-show-tonga-volcano-eruption-reached-mesosphere-2022-2) NASA's (https://www.businessinsider.com/space-lava-from-moon-volcanoes-creates-jupiters-powerful-aurora-lights-2022-2) Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of three (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-first-hubble-space-telescope-photos-since-mystery-glitch-2021-7) galaxies colliding and merging. When (https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-dancing-ghosts-illusion-galaxies-billion-light-years-daway-2021-8) galaxies collide, compressed gases form new (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-new-x-ray-space-telescope-snaps-first-image-supernova-2022-2) stars and eventually (https://www.businessinsider.com/two-supermassive-black-holes-nearest-earth-merging-into-monster-astronomers-2021-12) black [...]

(https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-grew-chili-peppers-in-space-astronaut-used-them-tacos-2021-11) NASA's (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-hubble-space-telescope-photos-nebula-galaxies-universe-2021-6) Hubble Space Telescope has gone (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-fixes-hubble-space-telescope-glitch-after-month-without-science-2021-7) offline for the (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-first-hubble-space-telescope-photos-since-mystery-glitch-2021-7) second time this year. Hubble's science instruments were registering errors after losing critical synchronization messages. (https://www.businessinsider.com/jupiter-great-red-spot-depth-nasa-juno-2021-10) NASA [...]

(https://www.businessinsider.com/jupiter-moon-ganymede-nasa-hubble-telescope-finds-water-vapor-2021-7) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been observing (https://www.businessinsider.com/5-years-of-stunning-jupiter-photos-nasa-juno-mission-2021-9) Jupiter's (https://www.businessinsider.com/images-of-jupiter-reveal-holes-in-great-red-spot-2020-5) Great Red Spot since 2009. In that decade, winds in the cyclone's outer band have sped up, while its [...]

NASA published a 'jewel-bright' photo of a spiral galaxy many millions of light-years from Earth. The galaxy, NGC 1385, is in the Fornax constellation. The constellation's name is Latin for [...]

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede for the first time. (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/hubble-finds-first-evidence-of-water-vapor-at-jupiter-s-moon-ganymede) According to a press release from [...]

(https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/hubble-finds-first-evidence-of-water-vapor-at-jupiter-s-moon-ganymede) Astronomers have uncovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede. This water vapor forms when ice from the moon's surface sublimates -- that is, turns [...]

(https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-video-juno-spacecraft-jupiter-largest-moon-ganymede-2021-7) NASA shared the (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-hubble-space-telescope-photos-nebula-galaxies-universe-2021-6) Hubble Space Telescope's first photos since it was fixed this weekend. (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-fixes-hubble-space-telescope-glitch-after-month-without-science-2021-7) Hubble is back online after a month of mysterious (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-hubble-space-telescope-backup-computer-glitching-new-questions-2021-6) glitching that forced [...]

(https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-video-juno-spacecraft-jupiter-largest-moon-ganymede-2021-7) NASA finally fixed the (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-hubble-space-telescope-photos-nebula-galaxies-universe-2021-6) Hubble Space Telescope after nearly five weeks without (https://www.businessinsider.com/jupiter-images-great-red-spot-red-spot-jr-2021-5) science operations. Hubble (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-to-attempt-risky-maneuver-to-save-hubble-space-telescope-2021-7) switched to backup hardware to correct the (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-hubble-space-telescope-backup-computer-glitching-new-questions-2021-6) mysterious glitch that [...]

(https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-fixing-hubble-telescope-switching-backup-hardware-2021-7) A mysterious glitch took (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-hubble-space-telescope-photos-nebula-galaxies-universe-2021-6) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope offline a month ago. The problem (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-troubleshooting-hubble-space-telescope-computer-error-2021-6) stumped engineers for weeks, but they're finally ready to try (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-fixing-hubble-telescope-switching-backup-hardware-2021-7) switching to [...]

(https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-trying-to-fix-hubble-space-telescope-computer-issue-2021-6) A mysterious glitch took (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-hubble-space-telescope-backup-computer-glitching-new-questions-2021-6https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-trying-to-fix-hubble-space-telescope-computer-issue-2021-6) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope offline last month. The problem has (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-troubleshooting-hubble-space-telescope-computer-error-2021-6) stumped engineers, but NASA is going to try switching to backup hardware. A [...]

(https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-hubble-space-telescope-backup-computer-glitching-new-questions-2021-6) NASA is trying to fix the Hubble Space Telescope after a mysterious glitch (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-trying-to-fix-hubble-space-telescope-computer-issue-2021-6) took it offline more than two weeks ago. (https://www.businessinsider.com/hubble-space-telescope-reveals-fading-nebula-in-deep-space-2020-12) Hubble is the world's most powerful [...]

(https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-insight-lander-may-run-out-of-power-2021-6) NASA has been troubleshooting (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-troubleshooting-hubble-space-telescope-computer-error-2021-6) a computer error on the Hubble Space Telescope for 12 days. After (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-trying-to-fix-hubble-space-telescope-computer-issue-2021-6) three failed attempts to fix (https://www.businessinsider.com/hubble-space-telescope-reveals-fading-nebula-in-deep-space-2020-12) Hubble, NASA determined the computer [...]

(https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-from-nasa-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-flights-2021-6) NASA is still trying to diagnose a (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-trying-to-fix-hubble-space-telescope-computer-issue-2021-6) computer glitch on its prized (https://www.businessinsider.com/jupiter-images-great-red-spot-red-spot-jr-2021-5) Hubble Space Telescope. After three failed attempts to fix (https://www.businessinsider.com/hubble-space-telescope-reveals-fading-nebula-in-deep-space-2020-12) Hubble, NASA has narrowed it [...]

The computer that controls the (https://www.businessinsider.com/jupiter-images-great-red-spot-red-spot-jr-2021-5) Hubble Space Telescope's science instruments suddenly halted on June 13. (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-sls-megarocket-newly-assembled-photos-2021-6) NASA has tried and failed to fix (https://www.businessinsider.com/hubble-space-telescope-reveals-fading-nebula-in-deep-space-2020-12) Hubble's computer issue three times. [...]

(https://www.engadget.com/lego-vidiyo-hands-on-silly-fun-minifigures-music-video-120006181.html) Lego is (https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2021/march/lego-nasa-discovery-space-shuttle) marking the 40th anniversary of the first space shuttle flight and 31 years since the (https://www.engadget.com/hubble-concentration-of-black-holes-215420800.html) Hubble Space Telescope launch. The company worked with NASA to [...]

(https://www.engadget.com/2017-12-06-scientists-discovered-the-most-distant-supermassive-black-hole-ever.html) Larger black holes may be the usual attention-getters, but the smaller ones may be at least as important. A team using the Hubble Space Telescope has (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/hubble-uncovers-concentration-of-small-black-holes) discovered a [...]

Given that it was expected to last 10 years and considering all the early problems, it's hard to believe the Hubble Space Telescope made it to 30. What's more, it [...]

NASA, ESA, and M. Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble) Scientists have long theorized about a 'Planet Nine' in the Solar System with a strange orbit, and there's now more evidence to suggest it's [...]