For centuries, one of the biggest challenges in astronomy has been our planet’s atmosphere. While it helps distribute heat from the Sun and provides the pressure and oxygen we need to survive, it gets ...

Birthdays are a time to celebrate with friends and family, an excuse to exchange gifts and party like there’s no tomorrow. For Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe), that becomes literally true when she’s ...

To celebrate its 33rd birthday, the iconic Hubble Space Telescope has taken yet another breathtaking image of our universe. The image, which encompasses a region of space in the Perseus molecular ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope blasted into orbit on April 24, 1990, making it 34 years old. For this birthday, the Hubble team has turned the aging observatory toward the Little Dumbbell Nebula, also ...

The giant star featured in this latest Hubble Space Telescope anniversary image is waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction. The star, called AG Carinae, is ...

NASA is celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope’s 32nd year in space with a festive look at five galaxies. Three spiral galaxies, an elliptical galaxy, and a lenticular (or, lens-like) galaxy are ...

Tomorrow, Sunday, April 24, marks the 32nd birthday of the Hubble Space Telescope. Since its launch in 1990, the telescope has helped uncover secrets of the universe as well as produced some ...

Things didn’t look too bright for the Hubble Space Telescope when it first went into orbit back in 1989: the $1.5 billion eye on the universe had gone into space with its light-gathering mirror ...

A whirlpool-like spiral galaxy is being distorted by the gravitational pull of a neighbor in a new photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The photo was released Wednesday (April 20) to mark the ...

Yes, your very own birthday! When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Space, as in outer space, is a great unifier in a way. It surrounds ...