STScI: Hubble Confirms Largest Comet Nucleus Ever Seen
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has determined the size of the largest icy comet nucleus ever seen by astronomers. The estimated ...
STScI: Record Broken: Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the ...
Many Segments are now One Mirror
Today NASA released the first image from Webb with all 18 segments focused and functioning together as a single 6.5-meter ...
STScI: Galaxy Collision Creates ‘Space Triangle’ in New Hubble Image
A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy, as captured in a new image from ...
STScI: Studying the Next Interstellar Interloper with Webb
Scientists have had only limited ability to study these objects once discovered, but all of that is about to change ...
STScI: Capturing All That Glitters in Galaxies with NASA’s Webb
An international research team will survey the stars, star clusters, and dust that lie within 19 nearby galaxies ...
STScI: Hubble Finds a Black Hole Igniting Star Formation in a Dwarf Galaxy
Often portrayed as destructive monsters that hold light captive, black holes take on a less villainous role in the latest ...
Webb Begins its Journey on ESA’s Ariane 5 Rocket!
Today, the James Webb Space Telescope successfully blasted off from the European Space Agency’s launch site in Kourou, French Guiana ...
STScI: Hubble’s Grand Tour of the Outer Solar System
From its vantage point high above Earth's atmosphere, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has completed this year's grand tour of the ...
STScI: Webb Primed to Lift the Haze Surrounding Sub-Neptunes
More than half of the Sun-like star systems surveyed in the Milky Way harbor a mysterious type of planet unlike ...
STScI: NASA’s Webb Will Join Forces with the Event Horizon Telescope to Reveal the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
to create an image of the area directly surrounding the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way ...
STScI: Hubble Shows Winds in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Are Speeding Up
Researchers analyzing Hubble's regular "storm reports" found that the average wind speed just within the boundaries of the storm, known ...
