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

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

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

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

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

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 ...

3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers ... Shifting air pockets in the atmosphere block and distort light, limiting the view from even the most powerful Earth ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is much larger than the Hubble and instead of orbiting the Earth, operates from a stationary ...

Could time itself actually explain our universe's expansion? Our current cosmological model—known as lambda cold dark matter, ...

Edwin Hubble was the first astronomer to take the initial steps that would ultimately lead to the Hubble Space Telescope, revealing a seemingly infinite ocean of galaxies. He thought that, despite ...