2016

• 5/19/2016 STScI-2016-15 1. Hubble Takes Mars Portrait Near Close Approach On May 12, 2016, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this striking image of Mars, when the planet was 50 million miles from Earth. The photo reveals... (More)
• 5/12/2016 STScI-2016-14 2. Hubble Catches Views of a Jet Rotating with Comet 252P/LINEAR For thousands of years, humans have recorded sightings of mysterious comets sweeping across the nighttime skies. These celestial wanderers, "snowballs"... (More)
• 4/26/2016 STScI-2016-18 3. Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting the Dwarf Planet Makemake Makemake is one of several dwarf planets that reside in the frigid outer realm of our solar system called the Kuiper Belt, a "junkyard" of countless... (More)

2015

• 10/13/2015 STScI-2015-37 4. Hubble's Planetary Portrait Captures New Changes in Jupiter's Great Red Spot Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have produced new global maps of Jupiter — the first in a series of annual portraits... (More)
• 6/3/2015 STScI-2015-24 5. Hubble Finds Two Chaotically Tumbling Pluto Moons Two of the most reliable changes in the sky are the daily rising of the sun in the east and setting of the sun in the west. But if you lived on a couple of Pluto's... (More)
• 3/12/2015 STScI-2015-09 6. NASA's Hubble Observations Suggest Underground Ocean on Jupiter's Largest Moon Nearly 500 million miles from the Sun lies a moon orbiting Jupiter that is slightly larger than the planet Mercury and may contain... (More)
• 2/5/2015 STScI-2015-05 7. Hubble Captures Rare Triple-Moon Conjunction Firing off a string of snapshots like a sports photographer at a NASCAR race, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a rare look at three of Jupiter's largest moons zipping... (More)

2014

• 10/28/2014 STScI-2014-31 8. Here's Looking At You: Spooky Shadow Play Gives Jupiter a Giant Eye The Hubble Space Telescope treats astronomers to gorgeous close-up views of the eerie outer planets. (More)
• 10/23/2014 STScI-2014-45 9. Close Encounters: Comet Siding Spring Seen Next to Mars This is a photo composite of the encounter of Comet Siding Spring with Mars on October 19, 2014. Separate Hubble Space Telescope... (More)
• 10/15/2014 STScI-2014-47 10. NASA's Hubble Telescope Finds Potential Kuiper Belt Targets for New Horizons Pluto Mission The Kuiper Belt is a vast disk of icy debris left over from our Sun's formation 4.6 billion years ago. Kuiper Belt objects... (More)