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Hubble is less vulnerable because it observes a narrower slice of the sky, while more distant observatories like the James Webb Space Telescope remain largely unaffected. (Image: Nature)

New study says satellites could disrupt nearly 40% of Hubble photos

December 05, 2025 9:19 am

If launch plans stay on track, Hubble could see an average of more than two satellites cross each exposure.

The expanding universe, seen through redshifted galaxies and the afterglow of the Big Bang, tells us when time began. (AI Image via DALLE)

13.8 billion years and counting: How we measured the Universe’s age

October 25, 2025 11:10 am

Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old — after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and listening to the hiss from the dawn of time.

An artistic illustration of the planet WASP 121 b.

Hubble finds fierce weather on display on a distant hellish ‘hot Jupiter’

January 05, 2024 11:41 am

Data from the Hubble Space Telescope revealed the incredibly chaotic weather on a distant hellish exoplanet where iron can be found in the form of a gas.

The hubble space telescope orbiting Earth

Hubble Space Telescope is in safe mode, NASA pauses operations

December 02, 2023 9:04 am

NASA said that it is working on getting the Hubble Space Telescope up and running after it went into safe mode due to a malfunctioning gyroscope.

Hubble zoomed into a small section of the Cygnus loop to capture a "timelapse."

Hubble takes timelapse video of expanding bubble made from exploded star

September 30, 2023 11:33 am

You can watch a timelapse video of supernova remnant captured by scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope.

Hubble telescope detects boulder leaving asteroid Dimorphos that DART crashed into

July 21, 2023 7:09 pm

The Hubble Telescope has detected 37 boulders leaving the asteroid Dimorphos, which NASA crashed the half-ton DART spacecraft into in September last year.

Hubble captures a jellyfish galaxy 700 million light-years away

June 15, 2023 10:08 am

NASA shared an image of a "jellyfish galaxy" moving thorugh a galactic cluster as the intra-cluster medium stripped its gas away, forming tendrils.

Hubble captures a jellyfish galaxy drifting 900 million light-years away

May 31, 2023 5:55 pm

The JW39 is a jellyfish galaxy that is over 900 million light-years away. It looks beautiful, but it is in a brutal environment where it is losing its gas and stars to other galaxies.

Evidence of elusive ‘intermediate’ black hole found in cosmic neighbourhood by Hubble

May 25, 2023 12:41 pm

Astronomers believe they have found evidence of a rare "intermediate-mass" black hole in our cosmic neigbourhood, just 6,000 light-years away, in a globular star cluster.