NASA has successfully fixed the Hubble Telescope’s payload computer, after it malfunctioned and stopped working over a month ago.
NASA May Have Found the Problem With Hubble
NASA believes it has discovered the issue with Hubble, after the telescope has been in safe mode for over a month.
Hubble Telescope to Search For New Kuiper Belt Objects
Launched in early 2006, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to rendezvous with dwarf planet Pluto in a little over one year. The observatory will fly within 6,200 miles of Pluto, gathering data on the dwarf planet and its companion…
Hubble Space Telescope: Deep Field Image Brightened With Ultraviolet Light
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) is one of the most iconic and impressive images ever taken of deep space. The image, taken of a tiny section of the southern sky, shows thousands of galaxies, putting the vastness of space…
Water Vapor Detected on Jupiter’s Moon Europa
New research published this week in the journal Science Express has revealed that there is water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter‘s moon Europa. The vapor was detected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope over the moon’s south pole. Though the…
Hubble Finds Young Milky Way-Like Galaxies
Astronomers this week detailed findings showing how our own galaxy, the Milky Way, may have looked when it was first forming. The research, published recently in The Astrophysical Journal, shows that the Milky Way was likely once a blue-hued, gas-filled,…
Hubble Telescope Spots Six-Tailed Asteroid
Astronomers today announced that an asteroid with six “comet-like” tails has been discovered. The asteroid, currently named P/2013 P5, was imaged twice in September by the Hubble Space Telescope. Its strange tails were seen changing position over the course of…
Hubble Telescope Spots a Blue Planet
Astronomers have been finding and cataloging exoplanets for years now, but NASA this week announced that the Hubble Space Telescope has helped determined the color of a planet orbiting a star 63 light-years from our solar system. The planet, HD…
“Strobe Light” Star Spotted by NASA Telescopes
NASA this week revealed that astronomers have discovered a mysterious object that acts like a strobe light. The object, named LRLL 54361, releases a flash of light every 25.34 days. Though other objects in the universe have been observed with…
Rogue Planet Orbit Spotted by NASA’s Hubble
New images of the Fomalhaut star system could show evidence of a “titanic planetary disruption.” Astronomers have found that the debris belt in the system is wider than was thought, and that a “rogue” planet has a precarious orbit that…
Globular Cluster Aging Revealed in New Study
Globular clusters are spherical groupings of stars tightly bound by gravity. While these objects are usually 12 to 13 billion years old, a new study has found that clusters can appear to be vastly different ages, depending on the behavior…
NASA’s Hubble Takes Census of Early Galaxies
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered seven previously unseen galaxies that formed over 13 billion years ago – a time when galaxies were just beginning to form. The new discovery has provided researchers with a “statistically robust” sample…
NASA May Have Found A New Most Distant Galaxy
NASA today announced that astronomers have found a candidate for the new most distant galaxy ever seen. This comes just after a similar announcement in September, when a different red blob took the record. The object, dubbed MACS0647-JD, is observed…
NASA Finds What Could be the Most Distant Galaxy Yet Seen
NASA today announced that it has snapped a picture of what could be the most distant galaxy ever seen. Using the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, astronomers have captured an image of what could be a young galaxy from when…
Pluto May Hold Key To Discovering Alien Worlds
A recent space discovery has turned some heads. The once 9th planet that we all miss has a hidden moon that no one knew about until recently. Last year scientists decided to point the Hubble Space Telescope at the not…
NASA Discovers Dark Matter Phenomenon
NASA discovers new dark matter phenomenon in an area they call Abell 520. Abell 520 is a merger of galaxies which were thought to have collided a long time ago and are now attached to a clump of dark matter…