The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit around the Earth 26 years ago, on April 24, 1990, and to celebrate the momentous occasion, a gorgeous new image has been added to the Hubble ...

The Big Picture (the Boston Globe’s high-res photo feature) has a new idea: an advent calendar using Hubble pictures!Every day, TBP will post a new Hubble image with a brief explanation, leading ...

Some 8,000 years ago, back in the Neolithic, photons from this gossamer cloud started traveling toward Earth. It would be another 8,000 years before they tunneled into the eyepiece of William ...

The Hubble space telescope has captured an incredible image of a blue bubble around a distant star. The image shows a Wolf–Rayet star known as WR 31a, which is located about 30,000 light-years ...

A spectacular new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a stunning space bubble filled with baby stars. The new space bubble image highlights an area called N11 – a complex network ...

This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, released to celebrate Hubble's 26th year in orbit, captures in stunning clarity what looks like a gigantic cosmic soap bubble. The object, known as ...

The Hubble Space Telescope turns 26 this week, and NASA ordered up one heck of a party balloon. The spectacular image above shows the Bubble Nebula, a rapidly expanding sphere of hot gas and dust ...

According to a new study from these researchers, our galaxy might be inside of a huge, empty void that is similar to an “air bubble in a cake,” the researchers explain.

See the full advent calendar here, as a new image will be revealed each day until December 25. The Hubble Space Telescope brings us this nearly edge-on view of the lenticular galaxy NGC 4753 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has peered inside a bubble of interstellar gas and dust that is being inflated by a hurricane of particles emitted from a young star. This nearby star, which has no name, is ...

An older image of the Bubble Nebula, released by the Hubble Space Telescope team in 2000 (NASA / ESA) Astronomers snapped this image as part of Hubble’s annual April birthday celebration.

The Big Picture (the Boston Globe's high-res photo feature) has a new idea: an advent calendar using Hubble pictures! Every day, TBP will post a new Hubble image with a brief explanation, leading up ...