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Hubble space telescope

February 2024

  • Champagne supernova: the Crab nebula in extraordinary detail, in an image created by combining visible light and other data from several telescopes, among them Hubble.

    ‘Cosmic time machines’: how space telescopes transformed our ability to understand the universe

    The launch of Hubble in 1990 marked a turning point in our quest to unravel the mysteries of deep space

January 2024

  • photos of the two pale blue planets viewed side by side, Neptune only very marginally a deeper blue

    True blue: Neptune only slightly deeper colour than Uranus, say Oxford scientists

    Both ice giants are similar pale blue, new research finds, correcting earlier beliefs about the planets’ relative hues

June 2023

  • Scientists prepare Euclid in France before it is taken to its launch site.

    Scientists hope Euclid telescope will reveal mysteries of dark matter

    European space probe will capture images that will provide insights about what the universe is made of

April 2022

  • The Hubble Space Telescope

    A star is reborn: how Hubble astronomers saw the earliest light

  • The disc around the AB Aurigae star, where signs of planet birth have been spotted.

    Rare glimpse of giant planet still ‘in the womb’ yet nine times the mass of Jupiter

March 2022

  • The name Earandel means ‘morning star’ in Old English.

    Distant star found by Hubble telescope may be earliest we will ever see

    Light from Earendel has travelled for an estimated 12.9bn years to reach Earth

January 2022

  • Martin Rees

    Nasa’s Webb telescope is a joy. But it’s the private ventures that push at limits

    Martin Rees
    Spacefaring adventurers, living and experimenting with new technology, could potentially spawn a post-human era

December 2021

  • An Ariane 5 rocket with the James Webb space telescope on board launches from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana.

    $10bn James Webb space telescope launches on ‘eternal search’ mission

  • Artist's impression of the James Webb space telescope folded in the Ariane 5 rocket during launch

    James Webb space telescope mission gets ready for Christmas Eve launch

September 2021

  • A Nasa engineer observes the James Webb space telescope.

    Spacewatch
    Spacewatch: James Webb telescope to launch in December

  • 3D illustration depicting the James Webb space telescope observing a distant star

    Spacewatch
    Spacewatch: James Webb telescope finally ready for launch

July 2021

  • SuperBIT telescope on the Palestine launch pad 2 hours before launch

    Enormous balloon could help astronomers get clear view of space

  • The Hubble space telescope

    Spacewatch
    Spacewatch: Nasa seeks a cure for Hubble’s troubles

July 2020

  • Photo by STScl/NASA via ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock (10624118a)

    Science Weekly
    Hubble at 30: a view into our cosmos – podcast

    Hannah Devlin talks to retired astronaut Kathy Sullivan about the Hubble space telescope

April 2020

  • To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Hubble took this picture of a star-forming region nicknamed the Cosmic Reef

    Spacewatch
    Spacewatch: Hubble space telescope turns 30

    Telescope has made substantial scientific contributions to almost every branch of astronomy

March 2019

  • A man gazes at the Milky Way outside his house at night.

    Scientists discover what the Milky Way weighs

    Most accurate measurement yet includes stars, dust, gas, planets and black hole

February 2019

  • Artist’s concept of Neptune’s Hippocamp moon

    'Breakneck speed' mini moon hurtles around Neptune at 20,000mph

    Astronomers confirm orbit of tiny moon Hippocamp via multiple images from Hubble

January 2019

  • Artist’s impression of the Square Kilometre Array.

    The five
    Five developments in space, time and fusion

    Projects from gravitational wave detection to viewing the Milky Way and generating thermonuclear power march ahead
  • Hubble space telescope

    Hubble loses best camera but discovers brightest ever quasar

    Nasa working on fix after space telescope’s wide-field camera broke down
  • Roman with a model of a planned Nasa Orbiting Solar Observatory in 1962. Her work on the space telescope programme led Nasa to call her the ‘mother of Hubble’.

    Nancy Roman obituary

    Nasa’s first chief of astronomy who oversaw the early development of the Hubble space telescope
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