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 ...

Back in 2022, Mr Isaacman offered to pay for a SpaceX mission to the telescope that would replace Hubble’s gyroscopes, which allow it to rotate in space and direct itself towards objects of ...

A star about 1,360 light-years away from Earth, named FU Orionis, is twice as hot as astronomers previously suspected, according to recent data from the Hubble Space Telescope. In fact ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured two tangled galaxies, whose interactions have caused knots to form in the "queen's hair." The galactic duo, formally known as MCG+05-31-045, is located 390 ...

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 ...

The universe is home to many fascinating objects. R Aquarii is a binary star system with a red giant and a white dwarf. Omega Centauri is a globular cluster with millions of stars. M87 is a galaxy ...

The Hubble space telescope was launched to low-Earth orbit in 1990. Since then it has been orbiting Earth at an altitude of ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga. The Large Magellanic Cloud, also called the LMC, is one of the Milky ...