A new planet discovered? The Hubble Space Telescope has detected an exciting new exoplanet, adding to the growing list of ...

Scientists and engineers built the instrument over the course of a decade — but Hubble's "birth" is marked on the calendar as April 24, 1990, when the 43.5-foot-long (13.2-meter-long) telescope ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched 30 years ago on Friday, forever changing the way we see the universe. The telescope's ethereal, dreamy and almost fantasy-like views of space vistas have ...

Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries. While the Hubble is best known for its awe-inspiring photos of planets and their moons, nebulas, galaxies, and everything in between, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was put into orbit from the Space Shuttle Discovery, mission...[+] STS-31, on 24 April 1990. In this picture taken from Discovery, HST is shown still in the grasp ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was released by the shuttle Discovery's robot arm the day after launch on April 24, 1990. NASA The gyros are critical to Hubble's longevity.

The Hubble Space Telescope, moments after release from the shuttle Discovery on April 25, 1990, one day after its launch from Earth. NASA Twenty five years ago, astronomers debated whether ...

Officials with the Hubble Space Telescope program have some new science to share on Wednesday (March 30). A NASA statement promises "one for the record books" and an "exciting new observation ...

Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for the past 35 years. For the majority of people alive today, the HST ...

Discovery’s engines and boosters thundered away as the spacecraft was pushed upward with over a million pounds of thrust. It achieved orbit in a mere eight and a half minutes. On April 24, 1990 ...

Because of a phenomenon knows as gravitational lensing, astronomers discovered a star through Hubble Space Telescope. This star, nicknamed Icarus, is the farthest star ever recorded.