As Hubble nears the end of its life, its much more capable successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, named after a former NASA administrator, is being developed at Johns Hopkins University.

Astronomers can look forward to finding more multiringed galaxies in the future. Hubble's successor, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

But although Webb is a successor to Hubble in some ways, with newer technology and the ability to see the universe in even greater detail, it isn’t a replacement. A pair of new images shows why ...

The Hubble Space Telescope 's $9.7 billion successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, has finally come together after a delays and cost overruns. The two halves of the next-generation space ...

There's no problem, however, with what a team of researchers say is likely a stable trio of icy space rocks in the solar system's Kuiper Belt, found using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ...

Despite its many achievements, Hubble is likely nearing the end of its life. The telescope is due for its last periodic servicing in May 2009. Its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope ...

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 ...

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There's no problem, however, with what a team of researchers say is likely a stable trio of icy space rocks in the solar system's Kuiper Belt, found using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ...