The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

The exoplanet K2-18b is generating headlines because researchers announced what could be evidence of life on the planet. The ...

The world's most famous telescope is celebrating in style with new views of Mars, nebulas and a galaxy that reminds us of home.

In celebration of 35 years spent in orbit around Earth, the Hubble team has released a set of four new images showing the ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

The political news these days is enough to make some Chicagoans wish they were a million miles away. But consider this: Even ...

ESA/Hubble In a first for astronomers surveying the depths of space, carbon dioxide has been detected on an exoplanet – that is, a planet lying outside our solar system. Thanks to the coronagraph ...

Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.

"Any claim of life on another planet requires a lot of justification, and I don't think we're there yet, Måns Holmberg, a ...

An astonishing discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope may rewrite our understanding of the Universe’s early years. A ...

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