"The protostars are midway down the path to becoming mature stars." Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures extraordinary images of young stars, shedding light on star formation in the Orion Nebula.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

Hubble Spies a Cosmic Eye: This image features the spiral galaxy NGC 2566, which sits 76 million light-years away in the constellation Puppis. Hubble Spots a Grand Spiral of Starbursts ...

The black hole's accretion disk reaches extraordinary temperatures, releasing high levels of electromagnetic ... spiral shape in the Hubble Space Telescope images. At first I was worried I had ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

Why it's so special: This stunning image from the Hubble Space Telescope depicts a ... ejecting jets of energetic material at high speeds from its poles and disrupting the surrounding gas and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 ...

Launched in April 1990, this orbiting telescope views star material some 10 to 12 billion light years from earth, and its digital images have contributed greatly to our knowledge of astronomy and ...