Hubble's Universe

Find out how the Hubble Space Telesope has helped revolutionise astronomy, including shedding light on dark matter and dark energy, lifting the veil on black holes, and peering into the dusty regions around stars to image exoplanets.

New data from the Hubble Space Telescope is adding twists to an older quest: to find out how many galaxies are in the universe, and how far out to they go?

The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized the science of astronomy and redefined space for the general public. What lies in its future, and how will it's dovetail with that of the new James Webb Space Telescope?

On May 4th, 2016, the Hubble Space Telescope made the first spectroscopic measurements of two of the three known Earth-sized exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 system just 40 light-years away. Now the results are in: a thick, puffy, hydrogen-helium atmosphere is likely ruled out from the possible range of atmospheres for these two planets.

NGC 7635 lies 8,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. Due to its very large size on the sky, previous Hubble images have only shown small sections of the nebula.

The Hubble Space Telescope got off to a rocky start after its April, 1990 deployment, when operators found that its high-gain antenna was mysteriously stuck. Then in 1994, it went on the fritz with Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on a beeline for Jupiter.