NASA scientists are facing questions after the Hubble Space Telescope spotted an unexpected feature on the interstellar ...

As a young star develops, so too does a protoplanetary disk of dust and gas around it, ready to birth new planets. Scientists ...

This results in a composition that is “unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent.” “These new Hubble images show that planet nurseries can be much more active and chaotic than we expected,” Kristina Monsch, ...

Planetary systems begin in chaos. In their primitive form, many rocky and icy objects are careening through space, smashing ...

It’s not often that telescopes suspended in space have landmark birthdays like this one. Launched on April 24, 1990, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has orbited at about 320 miles above Earth’s surface, ...

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 ...

CNN — Astronomers have long studied supermassive black holes and smaller black holes that form when massive stars implode, but they have searched for intermediate-mass black holes for years. Now, ...

NASA scientists embarked on a mission to find signs of interaction between Uranus' magnetic region and the surfaces of its four largest moons using the Hubble Space Telescope. During the mission, they ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...

The gallery of breathtaking images released to commemorate Hubble's 35 years in orbit was awe inspiring all it own. Once again though, Hubble is dropping jaws, this time for a snapshot of a spiral ...