By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries ... rather than magnification. A Hubble Space Telescope image of the Apollo 17 landing ...

whereby a massive foreground object warps the space around it, distorting the image of a background object into rings, arcs or multiple points of light. Related Stories: — Hubble Space Telescope: ...

A recently-discovered powerful cosmic lens, which magnifies profoundly distant objects in space. Credit: William Sheu (UCLA) / Hubble Space Telescope There are funhouse mirrors in space.

However, work on Webb began decades before — scientists began designing Webb before the Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990. Thousands of scientists, engineers and technicians from 29 U ...

Witness the majestic spiral arms of Galaxy NGC 1300, a barred spiral galaxy 61 million light-years away. Behold the birthplace of stars in the NGC 3324 region, a vast star-forming area in the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine ... The 1990 launch of the Hubble Space Telescope gave astronomers a new, crisp view of the universe. Freedman led a multiyear ...

And the crew of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn attempted one this week and made history with the first spacewalk from a commercial ...

Unlike its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope, Webb can observe the universe in infrared light, which allowed the cosmic observatory to see through the dust obscuring the view of star formation.