That's the surpising model revealed by comet LINEAR, whose dramatic demise was photographed late last month by the Hubble Space Telescope. A series of close-up images reveal that the comet left ...

The rest of the mission went like clockwork, including installation of a new cooling system for Hubble's near-infrared camera—NICMOS—useful for surveying dusty and cold areas of space ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the charming Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the iconic Mexican hat. The galaxy might look ...

"As enormous as this dusty pillar is, it's just one small piece of the greater Eagle Nebula." A breathtaking new image of the famous Eagle Nebula captures a towering pillar of gas and dust ...

Trouble with one of the Hubble Space Telescope's three remaining gyroscopes ... all three of the six older-model gyroscopes had failed. One of the remaining three units, gyroscope No. 3, began ...

Zamani (ESA/Hubble) This month sees a very special birthday: the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope. The venerable old space telescope was launched on April 24, 1990, so now is the ...

Former astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan was part of the space shuttle crew that put the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit on April 25, 1990. Before Hubble could be launched, however, Sullivan ...

The SMC is close to the bigger Large Magellanic Cloud and is best seen from November to January — unless you're the Hubble Space Telescope, which recently zoomed in on the SMC to reveal its ...

A part of space 4,000 light-years away is filled with baby stars, and the Hubble Space Telescope can see them. Two new photos taken by the intrepid telescope and released to celebrate the eye on ...