An curved arrow pointing right. The Hubble telescope's replacement – the James Webb space telescope – just had its final mirror installed. The new telescope has been in the works since 1996 ...

Why do we need a new telescope? James Webb Space Telescope is no mere replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope but an upgrade. While Hubble captures optical and ultraviolet wavelengths ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

For over 20 years, NASA — together with the Canadian and European space agencies — has been working toward a giant space telescope that will replace the Hubble Space Telescope. That telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new imagery of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. It is 11,000 light-years away in ...

In late February, if all goes to plan, a new character will enter NASA's ... and is the specialty of many telescopes including the Hubble Space Telescope, while infrared light is invisible to ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope are at the dawn of a new era in exploring the universe. With two powerful new instruments, added to Hubble in February 1997 by the crew of the Space ...

Hubble and its fellow observatories give us an unprecedented, crystal-clear look at the far reaches of the cosmos. Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The ...

A recent photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures two protostars called HOPS 150 and HOPS 153, which are located in the stellar nursery of the Orion Nebula.

A rare breed of star recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope spins faster by feeding on its stellar siblings. The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble ...

But with this new, larger telescope, Hubble was able to resolve images of the nebulae that showed individual stars. Around 1924, Hubble was looking at the Andromeda nebula and found to his ...

A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, known as NGC 5643, is located roughly 40 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lupus.