The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope, tucked onboard the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope had a ringside view of the ... A panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away, requiring over 600 Hubble overlapping ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of ...

Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble ... space and, in the distant future, our Milky Way galaxy will likely collide with our neighbor, Andromeda.

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24 ... the first confirmation that the Andromeda Galaxy will collide with our Milky Way Galaxy, and many more famous firsts. In celebration of its ...

Rather than solid arms, spiral galaxies may show density waves—regions where matter slows down and bunches up, like cars in ...

The telescope journeyed into space attached to the space ... was named after astronomer Edwin Hubble, who studied the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy using the Mount Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles ...

Hubble had been in space for less than two years when its Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph detected traces of boron in a not-too-distant star. At an estimated age of 14.5 billion years, the ...

This image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, depicts GAL-CLUS ... Caldwell 18 is a dwarf galaxy and a satellite of the Andromeda galaxy. Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Ferguson (University ...

The NASA and European Space Agency’s Hubble Space Telescope snapped a mesmerizing shot of an astronomical oddball, known as Arp 184 or NGC 1961. This strange spiral galaxy’s single broad arm ...

The Hubble Space Telescope marks its 35th anniversary with a stunning new image of the Sombrero Galaxy. This detailed view reveals the galaxy's structure, including its bright bulge and dusty disc.