On May 1, 2013, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) watched as an active region just around the East limb (left edge) of the sun erupted with a huge...

A new spacecraft is journeying to the Sun to snap the first pictures of the Sun’s north and south poles. Solar Orbiter, a collaboration between ESA (the European Space Agency) and NASA will have its first...

Almost everything you could want to know about the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury. Real HD photos and videos taken by the MESSENGER probe. We discuss the orbit, climate, geographical features, and general physical characteristics or...

Over the years, Hubble video producer Paul Morris has had the amazing opportunity to interview some of the brightest minds in astrophysics, and some of the coolest astronauts and people in the...

What is OPAL?



OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) is a project to obtain long time baseline observations of the outer planets in order to understand their atmospheric dynamics and evolution as...

We are going forward to the Moon by 2024, but did you know that back in 2005, Dr. Jim Garvin and his team of scientists pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at our nearest celestial neighbor for a very important...

Learn about the planets in our solar system! This video proves some fun facts about each planet that children will love. Preschoolers and toddlers can enjoy pictures and video of the planets while learning about these...

On Sept. 13, 2015, as NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, kept up its constant watch on the sun, its view was photobombed not once, but twice. Just as the moon came into SDO’s field of view on a path to cross the sun, Earth...

The Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, is the first mission designed to map the entire region of the boundary of our Solar System. As charged particles from the Sun, called the "solar wind," flow outward well beyond the orbits...

A new statistical study of planets found by a technique called gravitational microlensing suggests that Neptune-mass worlds are likely the most common type of planet to form in the icy outer realms of planetary...

After traveling several billion miles toward the Sun, a wayward young comet-like object orbiting among the giant planets has found a temporary parking place along the way.



The object has settled near a...

From its vantage point high above Earth’s atmosphere, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has completed its annual grand tour of the outer solar system – returning crisp images that are almost as good as earlier snapshots from...

Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are extraordinary events that generate as much energy in a thousandth of a second as the Sun does in an entire year!



Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have...

For the past 31 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has continued its important mission of uncovering the mysteries of the universe. One of those mysteries that Hubble has helped us begin to...

Our Milky Way’s central black hole has a leak! This supermassive black hole, over 4 million times more massive than our Sun, looks like it still has the remnants of a blowtorch-like jet dating back several thousand...

For the past 31 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has continued its important mission of uncovering the mysteries of the universe. One of those mysteries that Hubble has helped us begin to...

Observations of Jupiter's icy moon Europa from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the presence of persistent water vapor — but, mysteriously, only in one hemisphere.



Europa harbors a vast ocean underneath...

For the past 31 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has continued its important mission of uncovering the mysteries of the universe. One of those mysteries that Hubble has helped us begin to understand is...

Dr. Amy Simon has always been fascinated with space. From a young age she dreamed of lifting off in the space shuttle, just like her hero, astronaut Sally Ride. Over the years her interest in space remained, and...

This new Hubble Space Telescope view of Jupiter, taken on June 27, 2019, reveals the giant planet's trademark Great Red Spot, and a more intense color palette in the clouds swirling in Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere than seen in...

Astronomers on the hunt for an intermediate-mass black hole at the heart of the globular cluster NGC...

Though our galaxy is an immense city of at least 200 billion stars, the details of how they formed...

On July 29, 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. When it began operations on Oct. 1, 1958,...

Dedicated on Feb. 14, 1984, at NASA Goddard’s Space Flight Center, the STOCC, or the Space Telescope Operations Control Center, operates the Hubble Space Telescope on its important mission.



The Operations Team members...