Hubble Space Telescope

Rare Planetary Event To Be Viewed With Collossal 'Mirror'

Posted 05.08.2012

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 05/07/2012 05:40 PM EDT on SPACE.com Scientists are planning to use NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to observe next...

LOOK: Massive Stars Look Marvelous In Space Telescope Mosaic

Posted 04.17.2012

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 04/17/2012 10:03 AM EDT on SPACE.com A stunning new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope has captured an unprece...

PHOTO: 'UFO Galaxy' Looms 35 Million Light-Years From Earth

Posted 04.13.2012

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 04/12/2012 06:54 AM EDT on SPACE.com The Hubble Space Telescope has found a UFO, but this one is filled with star...

Lee Speigel

NASA's UFO Files TO Be Revealed On Science Channel Special

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 03.28.2012

Since the 1960s, when NASA astronauts first left the confines of Earth to begin exploration above and beyond our planet, their cameras have captured s...

PHOTO: What Milky Way "Twin" Says About Our Own Galaxy

Posted 04.04.2012

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 02/03/2012 10:01 AM EST on SPACE.com An uncanny twin of our own Milky Way galaxy takes center stage in a new cosm...

Plans and Precommitment: 2012 in Space!

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 03.11.2012

Zoe P. Strassfield

Here's a month-by-month listing of events I'm excited for in 2012.

NASA Finds New, Tiny Moon Circling Pluto

AP | Posted 09.19.2011

HOUSTON -- Distant and tiny Pluto has been hiding something from Earth: another moon. NASA announced Wednesday that the Hubble Space Telescope has fo...

Lee Speigel

Former Astronaut Story Musgrave Blasts NASA Over Space Program Failures

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 09.08.2011

Houston, we have a problem ... with NASA. As the space shuttle Atlantis orbits Earth in the final mission of NASA's 30-year reusable spacecraft leg...

Lee Speigel

Astronaut's Bittersweet Memories Of Space Shuttle Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 09.06.2011

The space shuttle Atlantis lifted off and disappeared into the sky Friday, and with it went NASA's longest running space travel program. The final ...

MILKY WAY ART: The New Yorker On The Best NASA Photographs Of 2010

newyorker.com | Posted by Caroline Hirsch | Posted 05.25.2011

As a science geek married to someone who attended both Space Camp and Space Academy (and who introduced me to the wonders of astronaut ice cream), it ...

Hubble Spots 'Space Jellyfish' Cosmic Blobs

Posted 05.25.2011

New images from the Hubble Space Telescope capture infant solar systems and 'embryonic' planetary systems located in the Orion Nebula. These images a...

NASA Cancels Shuttle Landing For Second Day In A Row

AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 05.25.2011

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Thunderstorms prevented space shuttle Atlantis from returning to its home base Saturday for the second day in a row, and ...

SLIDESHOW: Amazing Photos Of Planets Outside Solar System

Yahoo! News Photos | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- Earth seems to have its first fuzzy photos of alien planets outside our solar system, images captured by two teams of astronomers. The p...