Mar 1, 2014 by News Staff

A new image of a huge supernova discovered six weeks ago in the nearby galaxy Messier 82 has been captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. This Hubble...

Feb 15, 2014 by News Staff

Detailed images of auroras at Saturn’s north and south poles have been captured by astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Cassini...

Jan 13, 2014 by News Staff

NASA astronomers used both the Wide Field Camera 3 and the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the Hubble Space Telescope to capture the best-ever image...

Jan 10, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has used the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to collect a detailed image of the barred...

Jan 8, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers, reporting in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org), used the magnification power of the massive cluster of galaxies...

Jan 2, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have characterized the atmospheres of two nearby exoplanets: the super-Earth GJ 1214b and the Neptune-sized...

Dec 26, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have observed RS Puppis – a type of star known as a Cepheid variable star – over a period...

Dec 13, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered strong evidence of giant water-vapor geysers shooting off...

Nov 15, 2013 by News Staff

Using Hubble’s deep-sky surveys, NASA astronomers have studied the evolution of 400 Milky Way-like galaxies to show how our own Galaxy looked like...

Nov 8, 2013 by News Staff

A group of scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a unique multi-tailed object, labeled P/2013 P5, in the main asteroid belt. P/2013...

Nov 4, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to obtain the best view yet of our closest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri. Proxima Centauri. Image...

Oct 21, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble telescope to capture a new image of comet ISON, the so-called ‘comet of the century.’ This image...

Oct 21, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered what they say is the most distant gravitational lens yet. This image shows the quadruple...

Oct 11, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international group of astronomers has used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to observe petal-like shells of the elliptical galaxy PGC 6240. This...

Sep 25, 2013 by News Staff

New, deep observations of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 1689 have revealed that it hosts the largest population of globular clusters ever found. This...

Sep 24, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based optical telescopes have discovered what they say is the...

Sep 5, 2013 by News Staff

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ESO’s New Technology Telescope, two astronomers from University of Manchester, UK, have studied 130...

Aug 16, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have established that mature-looking galaxies existed much earlier than previously known, when the...

Aug 2, 2013 by News Staff

A large international team of astronomers has used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to learn more about so-called quenched galaxies – galaxies...

Jul 11, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope’s Imaging Spectrograph has for the first time determined the true color of an extrasolar...