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GREENBELT, Md., Nov. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hubble Space Telescope, a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency), has fundamentally changed the way we view [...]

When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)--the long-awaited successor to the Hubble Space Telescope--becomes operational in 2022, one of its first orders of business will be mapping the earliest structures [...]

New coin's reverse design features Hubble Space Telescope WASHINGTON, Dec. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- At noon EST on December 14, United States Mint (Mint) Director David J. Ryder and Maryland [...]

WASHINGTON, May 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA is naming its next-generation space telescope currently under development, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), in honor of Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's [...]

AUBURN, Ala., Dec. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the closest comets in modern times will pass by Earth this weekend -- but don't worry, there's no danger of it [...]

HOUSTON, Aug. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Gregory C. 'Ray J' Johnson, who piloted the space shuttle and more than 50 different aircraft, has retired after 28 years of service to [...]

SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 9, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Story Musgrave, former NASA astronaut, surgeon, and professor of design, will speak at Western Governors University's (WGU) lecture series, Sage Talks, on [...]

WASHINGTON, April 13, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two veteran NASA missions are providing new details about icy, ocean-bearing moons of Jupiter and Saturn, further heightening the scientific interest of these and [...]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged what may be water vapor plumes erupting off the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. This finding [...]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two's company, but three might not always be a crowd - at least in space. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, and a trick [...]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will host a teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 26, to present new findings from images captured by the agency's Hubble Space [...]

WASHINGTON, July 20, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have conducted the first search for atmospheres around temperate, Earth-sized planets beyond our solar system and found indications [...]

WASHINGTON, June 23, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA is contractually extending science operations for its Hubble Space Telescope an additional five years. The agency awarded a sole source contract extension Thursday [...]

GREENBELT, Md., Oct. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will host a Sunday Experiment on Oct. 18, 2015, from 1 to 3 [...]

GREENBELT, Md., Oct. 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have produced new maps of Jupiter -- the first in a series of annual portraits of the [...]

[[para]]WASHINGTON, June 11, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a stratosphere, one of the primary layers of Earth's atmosphere, on a massive and blazing-hot exoplanet known as [...]

[[para]]WASHINGTON, June 3, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- If you lived on one of Pluto's moons, you might have a hard time determining when, or from which direction, the sun will rise [...]

[[para]]WASHINGTON, May 28, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 3, to discuss the Hubble Space Telescope's surprising observations of how [...]

REDONDO BEACH, Calif., April 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) joined Griffith Observatory April 24-26 with daily events to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the launch of [...]

WASHINGTON, April 23, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The brilliant tapestry of young stars flaring to life resemble a glittering fireworks display in the 25th anniversary NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, released [...]

COSTAR and Six More Instruments Travel Billions of Miles with Hubble BOULDER, Colo., April 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, with seven instruments built by Ball Aerospace & [...]

WASHINGTON, April 16, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA is celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope's 25th anniversary with a variety of events highlighting its groundbreaking achievements and scientific contributions with activities running [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- UTC Aerospace Systems is celebrating its involvement in the successful mission and 25[sup.th] Anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) launch. HST is [...]

GREENBELT, Md., April 1, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 25 years of science this April 2015 with a variety of events open to the public around the [...]

WASHINGTON, March 26, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Using observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have found that dark matter does not slow down when colliding with [...]

GREENBELT, Md., March 12, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will mark 25 years since the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope with a free [...]

WASHINGTON, March 12, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon. The subterranean ocean is thought [...]

BRIDGEPORT, Conn., March 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Amazing Space (https://vimeo.com/120719398 ) is a stunning hour-long audio/visual meditation on space that will both entertain and calm your mind while guiding you [...]

WASHINGTON, March 9, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will host a teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday, March 12, to discuss Hubble Space Telescope's observations of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon. [...]

GREENBELT, Md., March 6, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 25 years of science this April 2015 with a variety of events open to the public. Here is [...]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Peering through a giant cosmic magnifying glass, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a tiny, faint galaxy -- one of the farthest galaxies ever [...]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Peering out to the dim, outer reaches of our solar system, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered three Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) the agency's [...]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A team of scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a turbulent planet [...]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground observation have found an unlikely object in an improbable place -- a monster black [...]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a companion star to a rare type of supernova. The discovery confirms a long-held theory that [...]

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has spotted a star system that could have left behind a 'zombie star' after an [...]

WASHINGTON, July 31, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have unexpectedly discovered the most distant galaxy that acts as a cosmic magnifying glass. Seen here as it [...]

WASHINGTON, July 24, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have gone looking for water vapor in the atmospheres of three planets orbiting stars similar to the sun [...]

WASHINGTON, July 10, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed an unusual structure 100,000 light years long, which resembles a corkscrew-shaped string of pearls and winds around the [...]

WASHINGTON, June 19, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- They may be little, but they pack a big star-forming punch. New observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show small galaxies, also known as [...]

WASHINGTON, June 16, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After careful consideration and analysis, the Hubble Space Telescope Time Allocation Committee has recommended using Hubble to search for an object the Pluto-bound NASA [...]

WASHINGTON, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have assembled a comprehensive picture of the evolving universe - among the most colorful deep space images ever [...]

WASHINGTON, May 15, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Jupiter's trademark Great Red Spot -- a swirling anti-cyclonic storm larger than Earth -- has shrunk to its smallest size ever measured. According to [...]

WASHINGTON, May 1, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Distant exploding stars observed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are providing astronomers with a powerful tool to determine the strength of naturally-occurring 'cosmic lenses' [...]

WASHINGTON, April 24, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have applied a new image processing technique to obtain near-infrared scattered light photos of five disks observed around [...]

WASHINGTON, April 23, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two instruments that played critical roles in discoveries made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope now are on display in an exhibit at the Smithsonian [...]

WASHINGTON, April 18, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Media are invited to attend a breakfast reception at 8:30 a.m. EDT April 23 to celebrate the 24th anniversary of Hubble Space Telescope's launch [...]

WASHINGTON, April 10, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers now can precisely measure the distance of stars up to 10,000 light-years away -- 10 times farther than [...]

WASHINGTON, April 3, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has weighed the largest known galaxy cluster in the distant universe, catalogued as ACT-CL J0102-4915, and found it definitely lives [...]

WASHINGTON, March 27, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA released Thursday an image of a comet that, on Oct. 19, will pass within 84,000 miles of Mars -- less than half the [...]