Articles about Hubble Space Telescope

Study highlights concerns over satellite interference with Hubble observations

An analysis of more than 100,000 images from the Hubble Space Telescope, conducted with the aid of artificial intelligence and… Read More

Astronomers offer a solution to Hubble Space Telescope’s case of the disappearing planet

More than a decade ago, Fomalhaut b was considered one of the first exoplanets to be directly imaged — but… Read More

‘Super-puff’ planets add a cotton candy flavor to the search for alien worlds

Readings from the Hubble Space Telescope have shed light on a bizarre class of alien planets that have the density… Read More

Hubble image shows distant galaxy photobombing an interstellar comet as it swings around the sun

The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped the best images to date showing the interstellar comet known as 2I/Borisov, and one… Read More

Happy Halloween from Hubble Telescope: Otherworldly ‘eyes’ glow in ghostly galaxy

Now here’s something really scary for Halloween: Imagine two galaxies slamming into each other and creating a monstrous wraith with… Read More

Hubble gets snapshot of interstellar comet

Pictures captured by the Hubble Space Telescope show the second known interstellar object, 2I/Borisov, in all its cometary glory. The… Read More

Hubble Space Telescope team hits ‘reset’ to get balky camera back to doing science

NASA says the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 is back to doing science observations, a week after it… Read More

Hubble Space Telescope’s team works to revive camera amid NASA shutdown

Engineers are working to bring the Hubble Space Telescope’s wide-angle camera back into operation after a hardware problem knocked it… Read More

Hubble team has bad news for aliens: Red dwarfs seem to wipe out life’s necessities

Red dwarf stars have been seen as the biggest potential frontier for alien life, in part because they’re the most… Read More

Hubble is back at work after breakdown

The Hubble Space Telescope is doing science again, three weeks after going out of service due to a gyro failure.… Read More

After encountering glitches, Hubble and Chandra space telescopes make recoveries

Things are looking up for two of NASA’s Great Observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Both… Read More

Chandra X-ray telescope experiences a glitch; Hubble troubleshooting continues

Even as experts worked on ways to get the Hubble Space Telescope back doing science, another one of NASA’s Great… Read More

Hubble Space Telescope goes into safe mode due to failed gyro; Plan B pending

The 28-year-old Hubble Space Telescope is temporarily out of service, due to the failure of one of its gyroscopic pointing… Read More

Hubble Space Telescope boosts evidence for first exomoon seen circling alien planet

With a lot of help from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers now feel confident enough to publish their evidence for… Read More

That’s no starship … or asteroid: Hubble hints that interstellar object is a comet

News brief: Observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories indicate that the cigar-shaped interstellar object known as… Read More

Phobos photobombs Mars in Hubble view

Leave it to tiny Phobos to horn in on Mars’ glory in an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.… Read More

100 years later, researchers prove Einstein right about starlight

Albert Einstein predicted that starlight could bend and brighten when a faraway star crossed paths with a closer space body,… Read More

May the gravitational force be with you: Hubble spies oodles of galaxies far away

Choose your movie meme: “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” or “Star Wars” for May the Fourth. Either way, the… Read More

Hubble team celebrates telescope’s 27th birthday with a double scoop of galaxies

It’s traditional for the team behind the Hubble Space Telescope to release a jaw-dropping picture to celebrate the anniversary of… Read More

Hubble spots more signs of Europa’s watery plumes, lifting hopes for habitability

Saturn’s moon Enceladus wasn’t the only ice-covered world making waves today: Scientists say Europa, a mysterious moon of Jupiter, has… Read More

Hubble reveals 10 times more galaxies than scientists thought were out there

It looks as if astronomers have been way, way off on their galaxy counts: A new analysis of data from… Read More

Hubble readings firm up evidence for plumes of water at Jupiter’s moon Europa

It’s not aliens. And it’s not exactly surprising, despite NASA’s advance billing. But new evidence of water plumes emanating from… Read More

Hubble Space Telescope celebrates the Fourth of July with galactic fireworks

Kiso 5639 is just a tadpole when it comes to galaxies, but it’s a real firecracker in a picture unveiled… Read More

Holy Hubble! See a super-sized Mars get bigger than it’s looked for a decade

For the next couple of weeks, Mars will look bigger than it’s looked in a decade! And no, this is… Read More

Hubble Space Telescope spots a moon circling faraway dwarf planet Makemake

Chalk up another moon for the dwarf planets: Astronomers have sifted through imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope to find a tiny satellite circling… Read More

Hubble bubble! Nebula shines on birthday card for 26-year-old space telescope

It’s been 26 years since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit, but the Bubble Nebula picture unveiled to… Read More

Far out! Hubble astronomers set record for spotting most distant galaxy (again)

Like the rockers in “This Is Spinal Tap,” astronomers cranked the dials on the Hubble Space Telescope up to 11… Read More

First spectral analysis of a super-Earth’s atmosphere shows it’s not super for life

For the first time, astronomers have conducted a spectral analysis of a distant super-Earth’s atmosphere – and the results show… Read More

Hubble Space Telescope salutes ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ with cosmic lightsaber

Leave it to the scientists behind the Hubble Space Telescope to capitalize on the craziness over “Star Wars: The Force… Read More

It’s a first: Hubble scientists successfully predict supernova’s ‘instant replay’

Astronomers traced one of the weirder twists in relativity to determine when they’d see an “instant replay” of a distant supernova, and… Read More