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"Before Hubble, no generation ever had access to unimaginably vibrant views of space, stretching almost all the way back to ...
From spellbinding images to groundbreaking scientific discoveries, we look back on some of Hubble's most exciting milestones.
The Hubble Space Telescope has made multiple observations of exoplanet WASP-121 b, also known as Tylos. The extreme temperature changes the massive 'hot Jupiter'-type planet may make it rain iron at ...
Chinas Shenzhou 20 mission has docked with the Tiangong space station. The crew of three astronauts launched from Jiuquan and ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...
On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying the new Hubble Space Telescope ...
JACKSON, Tenn. — The Hubble Space Telescope has now been in Earth’s orbit for 35 years. The 24,000lb observatory went into ...
Artist’s concept of the James Webb Space Telescope that shows part of the top of the sunshield, its primary mirror, mirror ...
The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...
The world's largest solar telescope, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, ...
Serving nine UC campuses and two national laboratories, Lick Observatory continues to be at the forefront of groundbreaking ...