reading on the age of the universe from previous methods. The ancient white dwarf stars, as seen by Hubble, turn out to be 12 to 13 billion years old. Because earlier Hubble observations show that the ...

The box in the ground-based image reveals the location of Hubble’s view within the wider context of this triple-star system. The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare and breathtaking image of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Decades of stunning images have continued to spark our imagination thanks to 35 years of the Hubble Space Telescope. A new era of space science began on April 24, 1990 when the ...

NASA and the European Space Station launched the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990, and over the past 34 years it’s been responsible for some of the most important discoveries in the universe. Now, it ...

On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched onboard Space Shuttle Discovery, and the next day was deployed in space. It was the first astronomical observatory placed in orbit around ...

On April 24, 1990, all 24,000 pounds of the Hubble Space Telescope were tucked away inside the Discovery space shuttle when it launched into space. Thirty-five years later, NASA says Hubble has proven ...

In 1974, the project’s Science Working Group recommended that the telescope be required to resolve details at least one-tenth ...

The rate at which the universe is expanding, known as the Hubble constant, is one of the fundamental parameters for understanding the evolution and ultimate fate of the cosmos. However, a persistent ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures an image of a supermassive black hole that is not at the center of its galaxy. Credit: NASA / ESA / STScI / Yuhan Yao / Joseph DePasquale Using NASA's Hubble Space ...

In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause stars to ...

A Hubble telescope image shows the most detailed view of NGC 346 yet, a stellar nursery within the Small Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ESA / NASA / A. Nota / P. Massey / E. Sabbi / C. Murray / M. Zamani A ...