Glitches have closed Hubble's supersharp eye from time to time over the past 30 years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been taking an extended look at a spiral galaxy to help astronomers make improvements in measuring vast cosmic distances. NGC 7038 is an enormous, oval-shaped spiral ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been expanding our knowledge of the cosmos for more than three decades, a spectacularly long run for any spacecraft. Nothing can stop the inevitable, though. NASA has ...

NASA is once again struggling to keep the Hubble Space Telescope running. Wired reports the Hubble team is slowly reviving its telescope following multiple instrument sync failures that prompted a ...

Once the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began operations last year, the comparisons began. Astronomers and others online posted side-by-side images of the same celestial objects captured by JWST ...

When a 31-year-old space computer doesn’t work as well as it used to, it’s time to call in the folks who built the system decades ago. That’s exactly what scientists repairing NASA’s Hubble Space ...

Three large, bright galaxies are on the verge of merging into one giant galaxy. Credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA / M. Sun Three giant galaxies verge on crashing, smearing their gas and dust in a violent ...

A Hubble image and NASA annotation show the location of Earendel and the gravitational lensing that made its detection possibleScience: NASA, ESA, Brian Welch (JHU), Dan Coe (STScI); Image processing: ...