For her pains, she was affectionately nicknamed “the mother of Hubble.” It was under her decades of leadership that ...

"These results were a surprise – we found more stellar contamination of our data than we were expecting ... of thousands of planets beyond the solar system. The team behind this research ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field instrument scientist. “We [will] detect hundreds of millions of galaxies to ...

In a path-breaking astronomical finding, NASA's Hubble ... edges of understanding of the cosmos. Operating for three decades and constantly making key findings, it always remakes our ideas about ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... NASA's Hubble Tracks Down a 'Blue Lurker' Among ...

Despite its whimsical name, Quipu (pronounced “kee-poo”) is the largest confirmed superstructure in the universe to date in ...

Discovered in the M67 star cluster, the “blue lurker” captivates astronomers with its quick spin and complex past involving a triple-star system ... our understanding of space. A collaborative effort ...

Carnegie's Allan Sandage is awarded the Crafoord Prize for his "contributions to the study of galaxies, their populations of stars, clusters and nebulae, their evolution, the velocity-distance ...