Nov 10, 2006 | TECHNOLOGIES
NASA Approves Mission and Names Crew for Return to Hubble
(NASA) - NASA has approved a fifth servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope.
Jul 03, 2006 | TECHNOLOGIES
Engineers Restart Hubble Camera
(NASA) - NASA engineers successfully activated the Advanced Camera for Surveys on Friday.
Dec 23, 2005 | SCIENCE
Hubble Discovers New Rings and Moons around Uranus
(NASA) - Hubble sees rings that are so far from Uranus, they are being called Uranus' 'second ring system.'
Oct 31, 2005 | SCIENCE
Hubble Reveals Possible New Moons Around Pluto
(NASA) - Astronomers have found Pluto may have not one, but three moons.
Oct 14, 2005 | SCIENCE
Hubble Reveals Moon's Prospects
(NASA) - New Hubble images may suggest sources of oxygen for human exploration.
Jun 22, 2005 | SCIENCE
NASA's Hubble Chases Unruly Planet
(NASA) - NASA's Hubble Telescope offers evidence that an unseen planet is gravitationally tugging on a dusty ring around the star Fomalhaut.
Jun 20, 2005 | SCIENCE
New Hubble Observations
(NASA) - New observations from Hubble will be presented by astronomers during a media teleconference on Wednesday.
Apr 26, 2005 | MISSIONS
Hubble Celebrates 15th Anniversary
(NASA) - In the past 15 years, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken more than 750,000 photos of the cosmos.
Dec 08, 2004 | MISSIONS
Media Briefing About New Look at Planet Forming
(NASA) - Astronomers will present new findings from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope tomorrow.
Oct 09, 2002 | SCIENCE, MISSIONS
Icy World Beyond Pluto
(Astrobiology Magazine) - An object half the size of Pluto has been spotted in the Kuiper Belt.
May 21, 2002 | MISSIONS
Hubble Telescope: Surprise Tool in Search for Life
(Space.com) - Hubble has unexpectedly made major contributions to astrobiology.
Apr 15, 2002 | SCIENCE
Signs of Another Solar System Like Ours
(Space.com) - Scientists have uncovered additional evidence that planets are forming in a cloud of dust around the star Beta Pictoris.
Apr 09, 2002 | SCIENCE, MISSIONS, TECHNOLOGIES
Hubble Space Telescope on Its Way to Full Science Operations
(NASA) - A new camera installed by astronauts last month is working properly.
Feb 28, 2002 | MISSIONS, TECHNOLOGIES
Shuttle Mission to Upgrade Hubble
(Space.com) - Add-ons may let the space telescope see extrasolar planets. Liftoff is planned for tomorrow.
Jan 04, 2002 | SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGIES
Young Stars in the 'Pillars of Creation'
(ESO) - New infrared images of the Eagle Nebula may help determine whether very bright stars prevent planets from forming around nearby newborn stars.
Nov 28, 2001 | SCIENCE, MISSIONS
Alien Atmosphere Discovered
(NASA) - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected the atmosphere of a planet circling a distant Sun-like star.
May 16, 2001 | SCIENCE, MISSIONS
What Is Saturn's Moon Titan Really Made Of?
(Spaceflight Now/ESA) - New images of Titan bolster the idea that an ocean of liquid organic compounds exists on its surface.
May 03, 2001 | SCIENCE
Planets May Be Rarer than Previously Thought
(Spaceflight Now/Vanderbilt Univ.) - Ultraviolet light from nearby massive stars may blast away developing planetary systems.
Mar 05, 2001 | SCIENCE
A Shortage of Planets
(NASA Astrobiology Institute) - When they turned the Hubble Space Telescope on a distant globular cluster of stars, astronomers expected to find fifteen or twenty planets. They found zero.
Dec 28, 2000 | SCIENCE
Planet orbits nearby star
(NASA Astrobiology Institute) - This summer, a planet was discovered orbiting Epsilon Eridani, a star close enough to see with the unaided eye.
Aug 16, 2000 | SCIENCE, MISSIONS
Possible ice mountains seen on Titan
(Spaceflight Now/University of Arizona) - A bright spot on this moon of Saturn may be mountains of water ice drenched in a rain of liquid methane.
Apr 07, 2000 | SCIENCE, MISSIONS
Suspected protoplanet may really be a distant star
(Astronomy Now/Spaceflight Now) - What was thought to be the first planet outside our solar system to be seen directly may now prove to be a star.
Jan 17, 2000 | SCIENCE
Passing star may have disrupted planetary system
(UniSci) - Stars straying past a planetary system may distort the orbits of the planets.
Dec 27, 1999 | MISSIONS
Shuttle Discovery returns home
(NASA) - During their eight-day mission, astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope.
Jul 04, 1999 | MISSIONS
New Hubble Mars images mark Pathfinder anniversary
(SpaceViews) - The fluctuations of the Martian climate are revealed in the new photographs.
Jul 01, 1999 | MISSIONS
New Hubble images of Mars
(Science@NASA) - The images reveal Mars' dynamic, fluctuating climate.