With its origins tracing back to the 1970s, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery on ...

It appears close to the Sun, so only visible just before sunrise.But if you did manage to check out Saturn through a backyard telescope, you'd see a yellowish orb, perhaps a few moons — but no ...

Sometimes, we have a great view of the rings’ broad ... the paper will all but disappear.” The Hubble Space Telescope captured these two distinct views of Saturn, with a ring plane crossing ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

Glowing like a multi-faceted jewel, the planetary nebula IC 418 lies about 2000 light-years from Earth in the constellation ...

A Hubble telescope image shows the most detailed view of NGC 346 yet, a stellar nursery within the Small Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ESA / NASA / A. Nota / P. Massey / E. Sabbi / C. Murray / M.

Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

Hubble and its fellow observatories give us an ... Shifting air pockets in the atmosphere block and distort light, limiting the view from even the most powerful Earth-bound instruments.

Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...