This website is currently being migrated. For the most up-to-date astrobiology news, resources, and community announcements, please visit our new home at science.nasa.gov/astrobiology

Home
Missions
Hubble Space Telecope
News
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASAIn this April 25, 1990, photograph taken by the crew of the STS-31 space shuttle mission, the Hubble Space Telescope is suspended above shuttle Discovery's cargo bay some 332 nautical miles above Earth. Credit: NASAComposite images of a suspected plume of material erupting two years apart from the same location on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. Plumes were photographed in ultraviolet light by NASA's Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph.Produced by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, this is the most detailed visible-light image ever taken of a narrow, dusty ring around the nearby star, Fomalhaut, and offers the strongest evidence yet that an unruly and unseen planet may be gravitationally tu
About Image
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASANASA
In this April 25, 1990, photograph taken by the crew of the STS-31 space shuttle mission, the Hubble Space Telescope is suspended above shuttle Discovery's cargo bay some 332 nautical miles above Earth. Credit: NASANASA
These composite images show a suspected plume of material erupting two years apart from the same location on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. The images bolster evidence that the plumes are a real phenomenon, flaring up intermittently in the same region on the satellite. Both plumes, photographed in ultraviolet light by NASA's Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, were seen in silhouette as the moon passed in front of Jupiter.NASA/ESA/W. Sparks (STScI)/USGS Astrogeology Science Center
Produced by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, this is the most detailed visible-light image ever taken of a narrow, dusty ring around the nearby star, Fomalhaut, and offers the strongest evidence yet that an unruly and unseen planet may be gravitationally tugging on the ring.NASA, ESA, P. Kalas and J. Graham (University of California, Berkeley) and M. Clampin (NASA/GSFC)
None
Mission name: Hubble Space Telecope

Hubble Space Telecope

Hubble has provided observations of everything from distant galaxies to nearby planets in our own Solar System.

Mission news and discoveries
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
NASA’s Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000 (NASA)September 17, 2025
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
May’s Night Sky Notes: How Do We Find Exoplanets? (NASA)May 01, 2025
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Eye on Infinity: NASA Celebrates Hubble’s 35th Year in Orbit (NASA)April 24, 2025
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
20-Year Hubble Study of Uranus Yields New Atmospheric Insights (NASA)April 01, 2025
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Hubble Captures Young Stars Changing Their Environments (NASA)January 17, 2025
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
NASA’s Hubble Celebrates Decade of Tracking Outer Planets (NASA)December 09, 2024
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
NASA’s New Edition of Graphic Novel Features Europa ClipperNovember 01, 2024
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
NASA’s Hubble, Webb Probe Surprisingly Smooth Disk Around Vega (NASA)November 01, 2024
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
NASA’s Hubble, MAVEN Help Solve the Mystery of Mars’ Escaping Water (NASA)September 05, 2024
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
NASA’s Hubble Restarts Science in New Pointing Mode (NASA)June 14, 2024
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
NASA to Change How It Points Hubble Space Telescope (NASA)June 04, 2024
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Webb Cracks Case of Inflated ExoplanetMay 21, 2024
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Hubble Views the Dawn of a Sun-like StarMay 18, 2024
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
NASA’s Webb Hints at Possible Atmosphere Surrounding Rocky ExoplanetMay 09, 2024
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
NASA’s Hubble Finds that Aging Brown Dwarfs Grow Lonely (NASA)March 22, 2024
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
What Are Hubble and Webb Observing Right Now? NASA Tool Has the Answer (NASA)March 07, 2024
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
30 Years Ago: STS-61, the First Hubble Servicing Mission (NASA)December 05, 2023
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Assessment of NASA’s NExSS Research Coordination NetworkNovember 28, 2023
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Hubble Sees Evaporating Planet Getting the Hiccups (NASA Goddard)July 27, 2023
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Hubble Follows Shadow Play Around Planet-Forming Disk (NASA Goddard)May 05, 2023
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Two Exoplanets May Be Mostly Water, NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Find (NASA Goddard)December 16, 2022
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
The Search For Life: Are We Alone?June 21, 2022
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Galaxies in Her Eyes: An Opera Conceived for PlanetariumsMarch 22, 2022
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Cosmic Milestone: NASA Confirms 5,000 ExoplanetsMarch 21, 2022
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Hubble Finds Evidence of Persistent Water Vapor in One Hemisphere of Europa (NASA Goddard)October 14, 2021
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Hubble Finds First Evidence of Water Vapor at Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede (NASA Goddard)July 26, 2021
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
NASA’s Webb to Explore a Neighboring, Dusty Planetary System (NASA)July 26, 2021
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Distant Planet May Be On Its Second Atmosphere, NASA's Hubble FindsMarch 12, 2021
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Hubble Uses Moon as 'Mirror' to Study Earth's Atmosphere (NASA Goddard)August 06, 2020
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Icy Moons and Their PlumesDecember 10, 2019
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
NASA Scientists Confirm Water Vapor on EuropaNovember 20, 2019
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
An Exo-Kuiper Belt in Scattered LightNovember 13, 2019
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Apply for "The PI Launchpad: From Science Idea to NASA Mission"September 25, 2019
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Hubble Finds Tiny “Electric Soccer Balls” in Space, Helps Solve Interstellar MysteryJune 26, 2019
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
NExSS 2.0May 13, 2019
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Atmospheric Details of an Extrasolar PlanetApril 08, 2019
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Searching for Life in the Great BeyondNovember 27, 2018
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
A Planet Near the Gap Between Super-Earths and Sub-NeptunesNovember 19, 2018
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Exoplanet Science StrategySeptember 21, 2018
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
15,000 Galaxies in One ImageAugust 21, 2018
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Bradford A. Smith (1931-2018)July 17, 2018
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Exoplanet Fomalhaut b On the MoveMay 07, 2018
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
TESS: NASA's Next Planet Hunter Takes to the SkyApril 18, 2018
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Outer Planets Assesment Group (OPAG) FindingsMarch 22, 2018
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
A Promordial Disc around a 45-Myr-old M DwarfMarch 20, 2018
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
False Positives, False Negatives; The World of Distant Biosignatures Attracts and ConfoundsJanuary 29, 2018
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Atmospheric Beacons of Life from Exoplanets Around G and K StarsDecember 05, 2017
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Furthering the Hunt for Habitable Planets with StatisticsSeptember 22, 2017
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Kepler Has Taught Us That Rocky Planets Are CommonJuly 03, 2017
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
Could Earth’s light blue color be a signature of life?May 06, 2016
The Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
NASA’s NExSS Coalition to Lead Search for Life on Distant WorldsApril 24, 2015