Hubble Space Telescope News

Combining data from 46 globular star clusters, astronomers arrived at a figure for the mass of the Milky Way: about 1.5 trillion times that of the Sun

The revelations on Monday came after scientists revisited a puzzling reading from an instrument aboard Galileo, which in 1995 became the first spacecraft to enter the orbit of a gas giant planet

Nasa scientists said they used Hubble Space Telescope to spot the star, which is up to a million times more luminous and about twice as hot as our sun, residing 9.3 billion lights years away from Earth

Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope is designed to peer even further back into time than the Hubble, probing the earliest dawn of the universe, the formation of stars and phenomena too distant to explore with current technology

Nasa scientists have spotted the farthest known galaxy in the universe, a primitive cluster of stars just 500 million years old

The spacecraft, known as the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, is a new NASA-funded space telescope and will be launched in 2021

Nasa scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope spot what looks like a colourful holiday ornament in spacea planetary nebula with glowing wisps of outpouring gas

Nasa's $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope , the most powerful ever built, will be launched between March and June 2019 from French Guiana

The binary asteroid 300163 (2006 VW139), discovered by Nasa's Hubble in Sept 2016, has comet-like features including a bright halo of material, called a coma, and a long tail of dust

Scientists discover glowing water molecules in the atmosphere of a giant Jupiter-like planet, WASP-121b, located 900 light years from Earth that is hot enough to boil iron