The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...

After 35 years of perusing the universe, the Hubble Space Telescope remains a household name — the most well-recognised and scientifically productive telescope in history. Perched above Earth’s blurry ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hubble pushed beyond its limits to reveal hidden surprises from early Universe A search for the universe's very first stars has ...

A Simon Fraser University cosmologist believes his team's new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have been striving to measure the rate at which the Universe is expanding. Two main methods have been used: one based on observations of the cosmic microwave ...

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, have captured one of the largest panoramic views of star birth in the distant universe, featuring about 15,000 galaxies, about 12,000 of which are forming stars. in the US. Now, combined with ...

The two keys to Edwin Hubble's breakthrough discovery were forged by others in the 1910s. The first key, the period-luminosity scale discovered by Henrietta Leavitt, allowed astronomers to calculate ...

Scientists have identified a strange cosmic relic called Cloud-9 — a starless, gas-filled object dominated by dark matter.

"After a 20-year struggle to place a large, sophisticated optical telescope in orbit the Hubble Space Telescope was finally launched in 1990, though its primary mirror was soon found to be flawed. A ...