As M88 heads towards M87 through the intracluster medium, it is being stripped of star-forming gas.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a delicate dance of celestial bodies in a new image of a distant galaxy that’s on a ...

Explore 15 photos and facts about the Hubble Telescope, revealing its discoveries, missions, and breathtaking views of space.

Look closely at this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and you'll see galaxies of various shapes and sizes clustered ...

A spectacular spiral galaxy known as M88 is traveling toward the crowded heart of the Virgo Cluster, where powerful forces ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of 250 million years. Its source was the spiral galaxy UGC 11397, which resides ...

Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have a flat disk, winding spiral arms and ongoing star formation. Ellipticals ...

Since it launched into space on April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has been an invaluable instrument to astronomers in unraveling the mysteries of the universe. As it orbits the Earth from 340 ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy whose asymmetric appearance may be the result of a galactic tug of war. Located 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo, the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has turned its sensitive gaze to a dwarf galaxy designated as ESO 490-017. The image was captured ...

The unveiling today of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a spectacular new set of images from the Hubble Space Telescope, brings mixed emotions to astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, ...