The trailblazing astronomer lends her name to the newest space telescope slated to deliver unprecedented insight into the ...

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

NASA’s next great space telescope will see 100 times more sky than Hubble. It’s about to arrive in Florida for launch in ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of the iconic Hubble Ultra Deep Field using its MIRI ...

Astronomers have uncovered one of the most mysterious galaxies ever found — a dim, ghostly object called CDG-2 that is almost entirely made of dark matter. Located 300 million light-years away in the ...

Stars form when vast clouds of dust and hydrogen gas collapse, creating a dense core that heats up until it transforms into a nuclear fusion reactor. What happens in the moments after a star emerges ...

Hubble has revealed a giant planet-forming disk unlike anything astronomers have seen before. Nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,” the enormous structure appears turbulent and oddly lopsided, with towering ...

The nebula is a star-forming region located about 5,000 light-years from Earth. Hubble first imaged this cosmic phenomenon in 1997 and revisited it with an improved camera. The new image helps ...

NASA is celebrating the 36th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope in Earth’s orbit, sharing a new image of the Trifid Nebula, nicknamed the “Cosmic Sea Slug,” first revealed in 1997. The ...

The Hubble Space Telescope still flies in Earth orbit, taking high-resolution photographs of stars, galaxies, nebula, asteroids, planets — pretty much anything astronomers decide merits Hubble’s time.

Sometimes it pays to return to the places you’ve been before. That’s certainly the case for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which just released an ethereal new image of a strange formation that the ...

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 ...