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You're a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions; could you tell us what's involved in training to go into space? As an astronaut you get trained to do all kinds [...]

A nearby galaxy is shining with star formation in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The spiral galaxy Messier 33, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy, is the [...]

New images released by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are of the Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy, also known as Andromeda VI. The Pegasus Dwarf is located in the Andromeda Galaxy, also [...]

26 July 2024 From its vantage point in low-Earth orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope recently captured an intricate portrait of NGC 3430, a classic spiral galaxy that resides 100 million [...]

'The Hubble Space Telescope mission is clearly one of NASA's most internationally celebrated achievements. The genius of putting a telescope above Earth's blurring atmosphere has opened our eyes to a [...]

LIKE THE MILKY WAY, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is a spiral marked by winding arms. These are regions where star birth and death run rampant, from glowing stellar nurseries to [...]

No mission has ever captured the public's imagination quite like Hubble. Since its launch on 24 April 1990, the venerable space telescope has made over 1.5 million observations of planets, [...]

On 1951, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky was observing the Coma Cluster of galaxies using a telescope at Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California. This cluster, containing more than 1,000 [...]

27 June 2024 The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a stunning new photo of infant stars nestled in a glowing cocoon of gas and dust. The bright clouds of dust [...]

24 May 2024 A bejewelled galaxy shines brightly in a stunning new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope. The nearby spiral galaxy, formally known as NGC 4689, lies only 54 [...]

A nearby galaxy is shining with star formation in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The spiral galaxy Messier 33, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy, is the [...]

Seasonal changes can have a dramatic effect on how quickly Mars loses its water to space, a joint study between the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile [...]

The universe is packed with galaxies. Everywhere we look we see galaxies crammed into the cosmos, grouped in clusters and great sheets that are littered throughout space-time. The most distant [...]

AUTHOR ANDREW MAY PUBLISHER ICON BOOKS PRICE [pounds sterling]10.99/$17.99 RELEASE OUT NOW Most of us will take certain truths about space and astronomy for granted, without really questioning why or [...]

The Hubble Space Telescope has seen cyclones raging in the dynamic atmosphere of a hot Jupiter located 880 light years away thanks to observations and computer modelling that could one [...]

A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows the tiny galaxy UGC 5189A, located about 150 million light years away in the constellation of Leo, in stunning detail. The space telescope, [...]

Spinning high above our world in the embrace of a low-Earth orbit lies Hubble, an observatory that's served as the backbone of modern astronomy for over three decades. Its cameras [...]

1 Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph This is used to cover a huge spectra of wavelengths, including ultraviolet and infrared. 2 Fine guidance sensors Hubble uses three fine guidance sensors - [...]

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that the atmosphere of a relatively small planet outside the Solar System is rich with water vapour. But don't plan a vacation [...]

Ever since NASA launched the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 spacecraft in December 1968, the scientific world has gazed out into the depths of the universe through many a generation of [...]

NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery is an amazing feat of engineering, and we're thrilled to say that the LEGO Space Shuttle Discovery kit is too! You can tell that a lot [...]

A globular cluster glitters with starlight in a new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope. Located 15,000 light years from Earth, the globular cluster known as Terzan 12 is nestled [...]

The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a bright stellar nursery studded with dazzling infant stars. Taken using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, the image captures a massive protostar called [...]

IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE that nearly half the people alive today have never known a world without the Hubble Space Telescope. The space shuttle Discovery blasted off with its precious [...]

A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows the tiny galaxy UGC 5189A, located about 150 million light years away in the constellation of Leo, in stunning detail. The space telescope, [...]

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a dazzling new view of two tempestuous young stars in the nearby Orion Nebula. A bright variable star known as V 372 Orionis is the [...]

A dazzling new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a stunning view of a nearby open cluster of stars that is slowly dissolving into the dwarf galaxy around it. [...]

SCIENCE WRITER JOHN WILFORD ONCE observed that his articles had to focus on one of these story lines to earn their way into print: 'big bang, big bucks, big screwup, [...]

Everybody loves a party. And scientists couldn't wait to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 33rd birthday with a magnificent portrait of NGC 1333. This stellar nursery lies about 960 light-years [...]

1 August 2022 The James Webb Space Telescope's predecessor, the trusty Hubble Space Telescope, is showing us why it shouldn't be forgotten now its successor is beaming back images. NASA [...]

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has gone offline for the second time this year. Hubble's science instruments were registering errors after losing critical synchronization messages. NASA says it's 'too early' to [...]

After 33 years, the Hubble Space Telescope is still uncovering new cosmic surprises. The venerable instrument recently added to its extensive catalogue of finds when it spotted a rare double [...]

A stunning new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows three galaxies heading for a collision and merger. While galactic collisions are fairly common, this one is rare because each [...]

India, March 5 -- The Hubble Space Telescope will celebrate 31 years in space observing the universe on April 24, 2021. A month before it's birthday, presenting a gallery of [...]

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a unique group of merging galaxies that provides a glimpse into processes in the early universe. The five galaxies, known as Hickson [...]

28 FEBRUARY 2022 A new Hubble image shows two deceivingly close galaxies located in the constellation of Virgo. The Hubble Space Telescope captured the barred spiral galaxy NGC 4496A and [...]

Two merging galaxies' immense gravity warps their arms into an embrace in a stunning new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy merger, known as Arp-Madore 417-391, was first [...]