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 ...

Among the most surprising was the discovery of X-rays coming from the comet. The Hubble Space Telescope produced the most detailed images of the comet, revealing a very different picture than what ...

“As astronomers we don’t have time to go looking through all the asteroid images. So we got the idea to collaborate with more than 10,000 citizen-science volunteers to peruse the huge Hubble ...

Commonly known as the Lagoon Nebula, M8 was discovered in 1654 by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna, who, like Charles Messier, sought to catalog nebulous objects in the night sky so ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

A piece of outer space history is coming to Davenport! The Putnam Museum and Science Center is hosting NASA's traveling exhibit, Hubble Telescope: New Views of the Universe, from Saturday, Nov. 9 ...

The current images from Hubble, including the detailed view of ... past’: What NASA’s Lucy hopes to find on Donaldjohanson asteroid ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted what appears to be a comet hanging out near the group of asteroids corralled by Jupiter. A comet has never been spotted in this location before ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sankrit “This view combines images taken in three different filters by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, highlighting emission from hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen atoms.