A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like star’s death just 1,000 light-years away. Hidden inside a dense cocoon of dust, ...

Peering deep into the early universe, this picturesque parallel field observation from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals thousands of colorful galaxies swimming in the inky blackness of space. A few ...

Trouble with one of the Hubble Space Telescope's three remaining gyroscopes, critical for aiming and locking onto targets, has prompted mission managers to switch to a backup control mode that will ...

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Both space telescopes went down on April 23 — but, while Hubble is back, TESS remains in safe mode. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

In a joint effort with ALMA, the Hubble telescope has discovered six huge, rare, ancient galaxies that date from the universe's most prolific period of star formation. But they're running on empty, ...

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