Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope, tucked onboard the space shuttle Discovery, blasted off Earth into history. Within a month ...

Hubble Space Telescope's 35th anniversary: See NASA's new out-of-this-world images The Hubble Space Telescope, launched 35 years ago, has blown our minds with its striking images of far-away ...

The galaxy IC 758, shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, is situated 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Hubble captured this image in 2023. IC ...

April 24th, 1990: the Hubble Space Telescope ushers in a new era of space science. 35 years later, it’s taken nearly 1.7 million observations, or an average of about 130 per day.

Every Hubble anniversary feels like a triumph for the elderly space telescope. It may have a few more anniversaries left in it. NASA hopes it will continue operations into the 2030s. Long live Hubble.

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

Oh NASA, your nerdy space musicals delight me so. This five-minute ditty features a NASA scientist who explains the infrared technology of the Spitzer Space Telescope and its difference from other ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is in low Earth orbit, 320 miles (515 kilometers) above the planet, placing it above most of the atmosphere. Its orbit is inclined at 28.5 degrees to the equator and it ...

They used the Hubble Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to capture and study Altjira. Two new Hubble observations added to a dataset that spans an impressive 17 years.

Hubble's new image of the Sombrero Galaxy, Messier 104. ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll. Messier 104 was discovered back in 1781 by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain—and has since been the ...