than 2.2 billion light-years away, for more than 13 hours. The gravity of the cluster’s trillion stars, plus dark matter, acts as a 2-million-light-year-wide “lens” in space. This “gravitational lens” ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed the iconic Pillars of Creation and the view is spectacular! Travel 6,500 ...

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High-resolution images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot have revealed that it’s not as stable as we thought. Instead, the Spot is squeezing in and out, with NASA ...

NASA announced Thursday that its Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has calibrated more than 40 "milepost markers" of space and time. The mile markers help scientists measure the expansion rate of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope might be getting all the news headlines this week, but the grand old dame of the space telescope world, the Hubble Space Telescope, continues to peer out into the cosmos ...

The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is running out of gyroscopes, and when none are left, the instrument will cease to conduct meaningful science. To preserve the telescope, which has been operating ...

After 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope is still churning out hits. In just the last year or so, scientists have used the school bus–sized observatory to confirm the first lone black hole, reveal ...

The five galaxies will merge into a single star group in about a billion years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Hubble Space ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. The ...