Hubble Space Telescope News
News and discoveries from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Photo Release: Hubble dazzles with young stars in Trifid Nebula for 36th anni...
20 Apr 2026 at 2:00pm
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope looked at a scene it first captured in 1997 in honour of 36th anniversary: a small portion of a star-forming region about 5000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, known as the Trifid Nebula. The image shows changes over incredibly short timescale... Read more... Photo Release: Hubble revisits Crab Nebula to track 25 years of expansion
23 Mar 2026 at 2:00pm
Nearly a millennium ago, astronomers witnessed a brilliant new star blazing in the sky — a supernova so bright it was visible in daylight for weeks. Today, its expanding remnant, the Crab Nebula, continues to evolve 6,500 light-years away. First linked to historical records by Edwin Hubble, the n... Read more... Science Release: Hubble unexpectedly catches comet breaking up
18 Mar 2026 at 2:00pm
Comet K1, whose full name is Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), had just passed its closest approach to the Sun and was heading out of the Solar System. Though it had been intact just days before, K1 fragmented into at least four pieces while the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was watching. The odds of th... Read more... Science Release: Hubble identifies one of darkest known galaxies
18 Feb 2026 at 3:00pm
Most galaxies in the nearby Universe are quite luminous, but some are so faint they’re nearly invisible. Astronomers, using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in combination with other observatories, identified a galaxy that appears to be almost entirely dominated by dark matter with only a smat... Read more... Photo Release: Hubble captures light show around rapidly dying star
10 Feb 2026 at 3:00pm
This stunning image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a dramatic interplay of light and shadow in the Egg Nebula, sculpted by freshly ejected stardust. Located approximately 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, the Egg Nebula features a central star obscured by a den... Read more... Science Release: Researchers discover hundreds of cosmic anomalies with help ...
27 Jan 2026 at 3:00pm
A team of astronomers have used a new AI-assisted method to search for rare astronomical objects in the Hubble Legacy Archive. The team sifted through nearly 100 million image cutouts in just two and a half days, uncovering nearly 1400 anomalous objects, more than 800 of which had never been docu... Read more... Science Release: Hubble uncovers the secret of stars that defy ageing
21 Jan 2026 at 10:00am
Some stars appear to defy time itself. Nestled within ancient star clusters, they shine bluer and brighter than their neighbours, looking far younger than their true age. Known as blue straggler stars, these stellar oddities have puzzled astronomers for more than 70 years. Now, new results using ... Read more... Science Release: Hubble examines Cloud-9, first of new type of object
5 Jan 2026 at 5:15pm
A team using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object —a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud that is considered a “relic” or remnant of early galaxy formation. Nicknamed “Cloud-9,” this is the first confirmed detection of such an object in the Universe... Read more... Science Release: Hubble sees asteroids colliding at nearby star for first time
18 Dec 2025 at 7:00pm
In a historical milestone, catastrophic collisions in a nearby planetary system were witnessed for the first time by astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. As they observed the bright star Fomalhaut, the scientists saw the impact of massive objects around the star. The Fomalhaut s... Read more... Science Release: Hubble sees white dwarf eating piece of Pluto-like object
18 Sep 2025 at 2:00pm
In our nearby stellar neighbourhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope could identify that this meal is taking place. Read more... 
