Now, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) missions are helping unlock that mystery. "There are only two places water can go. It can freeze into the ...

The collaboration between Hubble and MAVEN provided the first holistic view of hydrogen atoms escaping Mars, helping ...

On Sunday (Jan. 12), the Red Planet will make its close approach of Earth at 8:32 a.m. EST (13:32 GMT). This event, known as perigee, causes Mars to appear bigger and brighter in the sky than usual, ...

The mystery of the Hubble tension has deepened with the startling finding that the Coma Cluster of galaxies is 38 million light-years closer than it should be. In recent years, trouble has been ...

Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait more than two decades in the making. Like most full-color images of space objects, it's a ...

Major General Charles Bolden Jr. spoke about his experience as an astronaut during the Tate Lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 4, in ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, the Orion Nebula (Messier 42, M42). Just 1,500 light-years away ...

Photo: Andromeda nebula plate with Hubble's handwritten circle around the variable star he discovered In 1919 American astronomer Edwin Hubble began work at the Mount Wilson Observatory in ...

Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Saturn are all visible to the naked eye in ... This new look at the gas giant is from the Hubble ...

Following up on the groundbreaking 2020 discovery of newborn jets in a number of quasars, aspiring naval officer Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy has used NASA's Hubble Space ...

Hubble Space Telescope image of an ultraviolet ... This month, Jupiter will appear lined up in the sky alongside Mars, Venus, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, in a so-called "planetary parade".