One of the most spectacular galaxies in Earth's sky is the subject of a new image release to help celebrate 35 years of Hubble operations. The Sombrero Galaxy (Messier 104), located some 31 ...

Take your desktop wallpaper to the next level with Hubble's latest ... Hubble has snapped a ridiculously good image of the spiral galaxy NGC 691, which is about 120 million light-years from Earth.

Two very different galaxies are featured in this space wallpaper taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope ... Although they overlap as seen from Earth, there is no evidence of new star ...

So it’s exciting when an Earth-sized planet is discovered — and the Hubble Space Telescope has recently confirmed that a nearby planet, which is diminutive by exoplanet standards, is 1.07 ...

Launched on April 24, 1990, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has orbited at about 320 miles above Earth’s surface, according to the space agency’s website. The telescope journeyed into space ...

The Hubble observations revealed that LTT 1445Ac has a diameter 1.07 times that of Earth, meaning it’s a rocky world with roughly the same gravity as our own. The similarities stop there ...

More than that, Hubble determined that it's almost exactly the size of Earth and is just 22 light-years away. Don't pack your bags yet, though. The exoplanet, cataloged as LTT 1445Ac, was first ...

The globular cluster is located in the constellation Ophiuchus(Picture: ESA/Hubble & Nasa ... cluster is less than 50,000 light-years from Earth, located in the constellation Ophiuchus.

For now, Hubble is chugging along, the rare Millennial that hasn’t burned out yet. The telescope was at an altitude of about 350 miles (565 kilometers) during the final shuttle visit 13 years ago.

By the mid-to-late 2030s, Hubble’s orbital distance from the Earth would have become too small to keep it in space. Scientists estimated there was a 99.6 per cent chance it would be destroyed as ...

The chances of finding extraterrestrial life have improved slightly after NASA announced that its Hubble Space Telescope has confirmed the size of an Earth-sized exoplanet only 22 light-years from ...