If you’d like to have a go at our challenge, we simply want you to image the area of sky that covers the Hubble Deep Field to see whether you can detect any of the objects that are located in it.

The snapshot, dubbed the Hubble Deep Field contained thousands of nearby and distant galaxies. The image represents only a tiny sample of the universe, but it was important because it gave ...

Distant stars can tell us about the history of planets closer to home. The image comes from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, an instrument NASA astronauts installed during a space shuttle servicing ...

In terms of its impact JWST’s new image is something a rival to the iconic Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF) and the follow-up Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF), which transformed astronomers’ view ...

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 ...

How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?

Cosmic Leviathan: A galaxy cluster, resembling a submerged sea monster, distorts spacetime around it, as captured by the ...

The Hubble Telescope has spotted an unusual spiral galaxy – 76 million light-years away – that resembles an eye ...

The stars aligned for the planetarium's dome to become the backdrop for four readings of 'REDshift,' by playwright Chalmers ...