The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

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 ...

A sparkling stellar nursery appears reminiscent of the early universe in new images from the Hubble Space Telescope. The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust ...

It essentially made Hubble into a new telescope. "ACS has roughly ten times the discovery power of the previous camera," says Mario Livio, astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in ...

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 ...