Hubble identifies Earth-like debris in white dwarfs’ atmospheres
The Hubble Space Telescope has found the building blocks of Earth-like planets in an unlikely place: the atmospheres of a…
Hubble images provide farthest-ever montage of early Universe
Using multiple images from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of our deepest-ever view of…
Venus transit to help identify possible neo-Earths
Hoping to eventually identify Earth-like planets in other solar systems, astronomers plan to point the Hubble telescope at the Moon’s…
Hubble snaps most distant galaxy yet
Astronomers have pushed the Hubble Space Telescope to it limits by finding what they believe to be the most distant…
Hubble captures images of earliest ever galaxies
The Hubble Space Telescope has broken the distance limit for galaxies by uncovering a primordial population of ultra-blue galaxies whose…
Cell Phones More Expensive Than Hubble Space Comms
A British space scientist has worked out that sending texts (SMS) via cell phone works out to be far more…
Hubble Locates Gaggle Of Baby Galaxies
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a trove of 500 infant galaxies, formed around one billion years after the big…
Chandra Nuts-Out Hubble Constant Independently
The number that specifies the expansion rate of the universe, the Hubble constant, has been independently determined using NASA’s Chandra…
Hubble Captures Tempel’s Premature Ejaculation
Astronomers got a preview of what Deep Impact’s fourth of July rendezvous with the comet Tempel 1 may look like…