STScI: Hubble Tracks Down Fast Radio Bursts to Galaxies’ Spiral Arms
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have traced the locations of five brief, powerful radio blasts to the spiral arms ...
STScI: Hubble Captures Giant Star on the Edge of Destruction
In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launching of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed the renowned observatory at ...
STScI: NASA’s Webb to Study Young Exoplanets on the Edge
This outer realm of exoplanetary systems is an ideal hunting ground for NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope. Webb will ...
Space Telescope Science Institute Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary
As it celebrates its 40th anniversary STScI is looking forward to the future, including the October 2021 launch of NASA's ...
NOIRLab: Black Hole Pairs Found in Distant Merging Galaxies
Astronomers have found two close pairs of quasars in the distant Universe. Follow-up observations with Gemini North spectroscopically resolved one ...
STScI: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope General Observer Scientific Programs Selected
Mission officials for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have announced the selection of the General Observer programs for the telescope’s ...
STScI: Comet Makes a Pit Stop Near Jupiter’s Asteroids
After traveling several billion miles toward the Sun, a wayward young comet-like object orbiting among the giant planets has found ...
STScI: Researchers Rewind the Clock to Calculate Age and Site of Supernova Blast
Astronomers are winding back the clock on the expanding remains of a nearby, exploded star. By using NASA's Hubble Space ...
STScI: Dark Storm on Neptune Reverses Direction, Possibly Shedding a Fragment
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope watched a mysterious dark vortex on Neptune abruptly steer away from a likely death ...
STScI: Hubble Pins Down Weird Exoplanet with Far-Flung Orbit
Astronomers analyzing Hubble images of the double star, HD 106906, have discovered a planet in a huge 15,000-year-long orbit that ...
STScI: NASA’s Hubble Sees Unexplained Brightness from Colossal Explosion
Long ago and far across the universe, an enormous burst of gamma rays unleashed more energy in a half-second than ...
STScI: Hubble Launches Large Ultraviolet-Light Survey of Nearby Stars
To better understand stellar evolution, the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, has launched an ambitious new initiative ...
