April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

Hubble's eponymous space telescope captured ... and the red supergiant Betelgeuse. Meanwhile, the Crab Nebula has been identified as the result of the 1054 supernova that stunned the ancient ...

Proxima Centauri, captured in this Hubble image, is our closest neighboring star and ... This illustration shows a red giant star, similar to Betelgeuse or Antares. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf. It's right next to a model of a NASA space shuttle, which delivered Hubble to space 35 years ago, and it's no secret why ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is still going strong thanks to an amazing design, operations and science team — and a cadre of spacewalking astronauts. Hubble launched to Earth orbit 35 years ago ...

During its 35 years of orbiting the Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope has transmitted endless streams of magnificent images, confirmed the existence of "dark matter," and helped track a vagabond ...

After 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope is still churning out hits. In just the last year or so, scientists have used the school bus–sized observatory to confirm the first lone black hole ...

Exactly 35 years ago this week, the Hubble Space Telescope was released from the Space Shuttle Discovery cargo hatch. After a stuttering start, it became one of humankind’s most treasured ...

Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope, tucked onboard the space shuttle Discovery, blasted off Earth into history. The next day a ...