When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 346, a star cluster located within the Small Magellanic Cloud ...

From September 3, 2003, to January 16, 2004, the Hubble Telescope orbited the Earth 400 times over four and a half months, ...

It’s a true scientific success story—one that changed the fate of a whole field of research. Thanks to the collaboration of all the experts working on fixing the problem, we have images like the ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth Margherita Bassi - Daily Correspondent A section of the new photomosaic of the ...

A revolutionary image made over 10 days in December 1995 from the Hubble Telescope 30 years ago of an area of the sky astronomers had thought was empty displays a massive quantity of celestial bodies.

Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full moon. What backyard observers don't ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most famous scientific instruments that has ever existed. It’s given the world an unfathomable amount of data and allowed for never-before-imagined exploration ...

How do you spot 2,500 hidden galaxies within an area of sky already thoroughly searched by Hubble for more than a decade? The James Webb Space Telescope’s new MIRI Deep Imaging Survey has precisely ...

JWST produced a sharper image of galaxy cluster Abell S1063 than Hubble. Abell S1063's gravity acts like a magnifying glass, showing us distant galaxies. The JWST image reveals many more early ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Last week, ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations have provided size estimates for the nucleus of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, ranging from 320 meters to 5.6 kilometers in diameter, though the nucleus itself ...

"After a 20-year struggle to place a large, sophisticated optical telescope in orbit the Hubble Space Telescope was finally launched in 1990, though its primary mirror was soon found to be flawed. A ...