Shaped like an oversized bullhorn, it stands 8.5 feet (2.6 meters) tall and spans 10.5 feet (3.2 m) at its widest — three nested photon shields that surround and protect its delicate optics from ...

The shields guard SPHEREx's triple-mirror telescope, a 164-pound (74.5 kg) spectrophotometer that will scan the sky across ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Hubble Space Telescope captured a new image of the Veil Nebula, a supernova remnant from a star 20 times the mass of the sun that exploded 10,000 years ago ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the spiral galaxy NGC 5042, located 48 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy's center ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a system of asteroids in the distant Kuiper Belt may be triplets, not twins as previously suspected. If so, the stable trio of icy space rocks ...

Hubble was faulty and in a pretty bad way, too. Its first images looked like this. The problem was Hubble's large mirror ... developed Hubble's corrective optics space This acted as a pair ...