The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on ...

Here's how an innovative flat lens could solve these problems for satellites and space-based telescopes. Understanding ...

Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope. When you see all the ... The spacing of the field lens in the corrector was to have been done by laser measurements off the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The starburst galaxy NGC 4536, seen here in a photo by the Hubble Space Telescope, has bright ...

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took more than a thousand orbits of the Earth to take enough ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope are at the dawn of a new era in exploring the universe. With two powerful new instruments, added to Hubble in February 1997 by the crew of the Space ...