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Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA - Acknowledgement: N. Rose › Larger image This Hubble image shows the galaxy cluster Abell S1077. Galaxy clusters are large groupings of galaxies, each of them including millions of stars. They are the largest existing ...

WASHINGTON The Kepler space telescope, the celebrated discoverer of worlds around distant stars, may have found its last planet. NASA scientists announced on Wednesday that the telescope, which to date has cost $600 million to build and operate, ...

By: Megan Gannon Published: 05/14/2013 11:42 AM EDT on SPACE.com Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered two dead stars 150 light-years from Earth that are "polluted" with the raw material for strange, new worlds, scientists say.

The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered rocky remains of planetary material polluting the atmospheres of two white dwarfs — a sign that these stars likely have (or had) planetary systems and that asteroids are currently being shredded by extreme ...

For the first time, the 2013 Comet ISON heads towards the inner solar system and the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera was able to capture a spectacular image of the approaching comet that shows its exceptional splendor. Comet C/2012 S1 ISON ...

India April 26(IM):For 23 years now, the Hubble Space Telescope, our ultimate eye in the sky, has been orbiting Earth - once every 97 minutes - and has explored our universe with detail never seen before, uncovering galaxies far, far away, black ...

, the Hubbles six cameras and sensors see visible, infrared and ultraviolet light. At the heart of Hubble is its 8-foot-diameter (2.4 meters) primary mirror. The Hubble telescope is named after the famed late astronomer Edwin Hubble, who has been ...

Arm in arm: Astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman rides the Canadarm during a spacewalk on a 1993 Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission. (Credit: NASA) It was once described as a "glorified crane," but was so much more than that. Tireless cargo handler, ...

Artist's concept of the Hubble Space Telescope viewing ultraviolet light from the jet of the active galactic nucleus of PKS 1424+240. Blazars are the brightest of active galactic nuclei, and many emit very high-energy gamma rays. New observations of ...