Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.

The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the ...

Scientists continue to be baffled by a strange occurrence in Saturn’s rings ... as well as future observations by Hubble and the James Webb space telescope, will help us learn even more about ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

There were theories, however, that Saturn’s rings were transient and could disappear within 50-to-200 million years, while ...

Saturn’s iconic rings will seem to vanish on March 23, 2025, as the planet’s tilt aligns perfectly with Earth. This ...

In fact, data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft back in 2017 revealed it's expected to actually take 100 million years ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sankrit “This view combines images taken in three different filters by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, highlighting emission from hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen atoms.

Once its rings vanish from sight in March 2025, Saturn will look like a pale yellow sphere through most telescopes.

Hubble and its fellow observatories give us an ... Shifting air pockets in the atmosphere block and distort light, limiting the view from even the most powerful Earth-bound instruments.

Hubble images of this photogenic nebula were first taken in 1994 and 1997, and again in 2015. This view combines images taken in three different filters by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 ...