Astronomers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to find hundreds of "anomalies" in data from the Hubble Telescope. More than 1,300 unusual objects were found in the search, with over 800 never ...

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Since its launch in 1990, Hubble has transformed our understanding of the cosmos. The space telescope revealed a universe teeming with galaxies, stars, and planets instead of what we once saw as empty ...

The universe is so vast, and the difficulty of discovering all that there is out in the cosmos is so great, that one might as well count all the grains of sand in the Sahara. But now, with the help of ...

The universe is filled with innumerable astrophysical objects, each one different from the last. But even amid this vast diversity, some stand out as truly bizarre. A pair of astronomers recently ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is losing altitude with every orbit, pulled gradually closer to Earth by atmospheric drag that no onboard system can counteract. NASA has acknowledged the slow orbital decay ...

Astronomers tracking a nearby star system thought they had spotted an exoplanet reflecting light from its star. Then it vanished. Even stranger, another bright object appeared nearby. After studying ...

For years now, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has had its fair share of brushes with death. The groundbreaking observatory launched into low-Earth orbit 36 years ago, and it’s now been operational two ...