"This discovery was partly serendipity! But, we believe there are many more such opportunities hidden in Hubble data." ...

Amazing views of Jupiter over the years via the Hubble Space Telescope. The moons of Io, Ganymede and hazy Uranus can be observed. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (NASA-GSFC), M. H. Wong (UC ...

Complex organic molecules that could be the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it have been discovered in a disk of gas and dust swirling around an infant star.

Einstein's theory posits that mass distorts space. This distortion can bend light from distant objects. Astronomers use this ...

Showing that you shouldn't draw conclusions based on too few facts, new NASA research suggests that a decades-old view of ...

A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope went looking for evidence of one phenomenon and found quite another. The research team studied the four largest moons of the ice giant ...

The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured this image of a nebula known as GN 04.32.8 within a larger stellar nursery ...

Uranus is unlike any other planet in space. It tilts sideways, spinning like a barrel in orbit. Each pole gets 42 years of ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Gemini Observatory, European ...