Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what ... in orbit some 353 miles (569 kilometers) above the Earth. The repair worked, and Hubble began to deliver crystal-clear images.

Long before its launch into low Earth orbit in 1990, Hubble suffered from design conflicts ... interrupted the flow of science data from the orbiting observatory. It’s not yet clear how the ...

Unusual vortices tied to Jupiter’s magnetic field may be driving massive formations of atmospheric haze close to the giant ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons ... specifically to search for atmospheric biosignatures on Earth-sized, rocky ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first visible-light image of a planet orbiting a star outside ... and located 25 light years from Earth. According to Paul Kalas of the University ...

T he Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a striking new image of Messier 90 (M90), a stunning spiral galaxy in the Virgo ...

Planets beyond our Solar System are called exoplanets The first exoplanet was discovered in 1992, orbiting a ... atmosphere similar to Earth it would be so thin that Hubble couldn't detect it." ...

Nasa and the SpaceX rocket company are to study the feasibility of running a private astronaut mission to extend the life of the Hubble telescope. The orbiting ... circles the Earth at a height ...

With data from the Hubble Space Telescope ... K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is the only planet orbiting a star outside the solar system (or "exoplanet") known to have both ...

A cosmic drama is unfolding at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is watching the story ...