On Wednesday evening, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, announced a major investment in not just one ...

Hubble had been in space for less than two years when its Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph detected traces of boron in a not-too-distant star. At an estimated age of 14.5 billion years, the star ...

During its 35 years of orbiting the Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope has transmitted endless streams of magnificent images, confirmed the existence of "dark matter," and helped track a vagabond black ...

It’s not often that telescopes suspended in space have landmark birthdays like this one. Launched on April 24, 1990, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has orbited at about 320 miles above Earth’s surface, ...

Launched on April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a joint initiative of NASA and the European Space Agency, operating for 35 years. During its operational lifetime, HST has conducted ...

The new picture, taken by the Hubble Space telescope, suggests the Nebula is actually cylindrical in shape and that from Earth we see it almost on end, so it looks like a circle. The Nebula was first ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another star. NASA and the European Space Agency released ...

A team using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object—a starless, gas-rich, ...

Astronomers have revealed a new type of cosmic object called Cloud-9 — a dim, starless gas cloud anchored by a massive dark ...