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NASA Hubble Announcement: Twitter Has Some Funny Thoughts on What It'll Be

Speculation abounds for today's NASA Hubble Space Telescope announcement. The space agency plans to reveal a new discovery made by one of the world's most famous telescopes during a media teleconference today. "Astronomers have pushed the Hubble Space Telescope to its limits and have seen further back in time than ever...

Scientists Witness Trail of Asteroid Collision

(Oct. 13) -- For the first time ever, scientists have front-row seats to one of the solar system's great demolition derbies. Stargazers have long known that asteroids slam into each other every now and then, but they've never been lucky enough to witness the result of a collision as it unfolds -- until now. Pictures...

Hubble Telescope Marks Picture-Perfect Milestone

(April 23) -- What better way to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 20th anniversary than to gaze in wonder at its latest mind-blowing image? In the two decades since its launch on April 24, 1990, the Hubble telescope has advanced scientific knowledge of the universe by leaps and bounds. And it isn't done yet, as NASA...

Hubble Telescope Gives Earliest Glimpse of Universe

WASHINGTON (Jan. 5) -- The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the earliest image yet of the universe -- just 600 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was just a toddler. Scientists released the photo Tuesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. It's the most complete picture of the early...

Astronomers Spot Smallest Object in Outer Solar System

(Dec. 30) -- In a cosmic version of the old needle-in-a-haystack finding, astronomers have spotted an object less than a mile wide that is 4.2 billion miles away, in the outer solar system. The object is part of the Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy rocks beyond Neptune. The object, spotted in visible light by the Hubble Space...