Tag Archives: Hubble Space Telescope
Scientists find a cloudless ‘hot Jupiter’ exoplanet with a four-day year
Strange exoplanet discovery makes a case for the elusive ‘Planet Nine’
The Hubble Telescope caught a supernova outshining every star in its galaxy
Scientists discover water vapor on an exoplanet with a rocky core
Water vapor is common in gas giants; Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all have H2O floating around in their atmospheres. But water on a rocky planet is exceedingly rare, making the discovery of water vapor -- and possibly even rain -- on the exopl...
NASA’s Hubble Legacy Field image contains 16 years of data
The Hubble Space Telescope has been capturing tons of space images since it entered orbit in 1990. Now, NASA has put together a mosaic photo using 16 years' worth of data to create one of the widest views of the universe we've ever seen. The image, c...
The world’s largest telescope will unlock the universe’s oldest secrets
In the predawn hours of September 20th, 2017, the cavernous hangar doors of the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab at the University of Arizona slowly swung open and the first of seven gargantuan mirrors passed through on its way to the Las Campanas Observa...
A lawsuit almost stalled NASA’s Cassini mission
Captain Scott Kelly wasn't kidding when he famously quipped that "space is hard". Even getting to the launch pad can prove to be a daunting challenge. Take the Cassini mission to study Saturn, for example. Despite an investment of $3.4 billion and ne...
Hubble Space Telescope Spots The Behemoth
Hubble is in the news again with yet another incredible find in space. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a huge cloud of hydrogen dubbed “The Behemoth” bleeding from a...
A Bumpy Pluto Comes into Focus as New Horizons Approaches
NASA has released new imagery taken by the New Horizons spacecraft as it approaches Pluto. The first set of photos released end of May had NASA scientists already very excited. The new images are...