NASA’s Chandra Observatory Delivers New Insight into Formation of Star Clusters

Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and infrared telescopes, astronomers have made an important advance…

Hubble Astronomers Use Supernovae to Gauge Power of Cosmic Lenses

Distant exploding stars observed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are providing astronomers with a powerful tool…

Astronomical Forensics Uncover Planetary Disks in NASA’s Hubble Archive

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have applied a new image processing technique to obtain near-infrared…

NASA Hubble Instruments Highlight New National Air and Space Museum Exhibit

Two instruments that played critical roles in discoveries made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope now are…

NASA Hosts Media Teleconference to Announce Latest Kepler Discovery

NASA will host a news teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 17, to announce a…

NASA’s Hubble Extends Stellar Tape Measure 10 Times Farther Into Space

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers now can precisely measure the distance of stars up to…

NASA Space Assets Detect Ocean inside Saturn Moon

NASA's Cassini spacecraft and Deep Space Network have uncovered evidence Saturn's moon Enceladus harbors a large…

Hubble Celebrates 24th Anniversary with Infrared Image of Nearby Star Factory

In celebration of the 24th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have…

NASA’s NuSTAR Untangles Mystery of How Stars Explode

One of the biggest mysteries in astronomy, how stars blow up in supernova explosions, finally is…

Hubble Watches Stars’ Clockwork Motion In Nearby Galaxy

Using the sharp-eyed NASA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have for the first time precisely measured the…