Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...

Once described as the most important telescope in history after the original built by Galileo, the Hubble Space Telescope has offered humanity an unrivalled window into the stars around us.

It's the year 2000. We're floating in space, and we come across the side view of a spectacular spiral galaxy. It's called UGC 10043 and is located 150 million light-years away. Spiral galaxies ...

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 ...

As part of the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project team, Freedman used detailed observations of Cepheid stars to find a value of 72-73 km/s/Mpc, where the best star-based estimates of the constant have ...

It currently orbits about 332 miles/535 km above Earth, completing one orbit approximately every 95 minutes The iconic space telescope won't last forever. Hubble’s orbit is decaying and if it ...

Rather, the galaxy appears to us as a thin, striking line across the cosmos. Though these thoughts sound like mostly a dream to us, for over 30 years in orbit, it has been the Hubble Space Telescope's ...

"But by combining the existing measurements from Australia, South Africa, and the Hubble Space Telescope, we can follow its development in great detail." ...

it’s easy to forget about the grand old master of the space telescopes, Hubble. But although Webb is a successor to Hubble in some ways, with newer technology and the ability to see the universe ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years away in the constellation Delphinus," according to NASA. Credit ...