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This week brings the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th birthday – but instead of getting presents, the Hubble team is giving out ...
Stranded astronauts and celebrity space tourism have piqued interest in space — and a photography exhibition in the museum is ...
"It's amazing that after 35 years, Hubble still holds a unique capability as a top workhorse for science discoveries and ...
In celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope's 35 years in Earth orbit, NASA is releasing an assortment of compelling images ...
Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS ...
The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...
The political news these days is enough to make some Chicagoans wish they were a million miles away. But consider this: Even ...
A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic noon"—when galaxies in the young universe underwent something of an awkward ...
A bold new theory suggests the universe didn’t begin with a single Big Bang, but instead unfolds through a series of ultra-fast, invisible bursts called “temporal singularities.” These fleeting events ...
Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.
Travel 500 million light-years into the James Webb Space Telescope's amazing view of the Cartwheel Galaxy. Credit: ESA/Webb, ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "smoking gun" evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive ...