A strange, layered structure in deep space has captured astronomers’ attention, looking uncannily like a cosmic sandwich floating in the dark. The object, a vast disk of gas and dust, appears as a stacked,

For more than three decades, the Hubble Space Telescope has been capturing images we never imagined possible, revealing cosmic treasures too magnificent to remain hidden. It has been delivering stunning photographs that showcase the universe's wonders,

The Hubble Space Telescope has been in orbit around Earth for 35 years The most famous telescope in history has reached a major milestone — it's 35 years old. The Hubble Space Telescope launched on a grand scientific adventure to study the cosmos on ...

In 1974, the project’s Science Working Group recommended that the telescope be required to resolve details at least one-tenth of an arcsecond (or 1/36,000 of a degree of arc across the sky), and have a wavelength range from ultraviolet through visible to infrared light.

One of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most iconic images is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which unveiled myriad galaxies across the universe, stretching back to within a few hundred million years of the Big Bang. Hubble peered at a single patch of seemingly ...