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

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 ...

It's called the "Hubble Ultra Deep Field" and was created when Hubble stared at a small patch of sky for the equivalent of more than 11 days to see some of the most distant galaxies ever observed.

2012's eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, was assembled by combining 10 years of Hubble Space Telescope ... [+] photographs taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field.

Over the last two decades, astronomers have constructed new and better images of our deepest view of the universe, including the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and more recently, the eXtreme Deep Field ...

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 ...

The Hubble Deep Field, shown here, is a patch of sky in the constellation of Ursa Major the Great Bear. It was originally chosen because it was an empty and apparently blank patch of sky - so no ...

Released in December 2011, this vibrant Hubble image was created by combining visible and near-infrared light collected by the telescope's Wide Field Camera 3. The light emitted by hot hydrogen ...

The Sky at Night — Hubble: The Five Greatest Images of the Cosmos The team reveals the 'top five' greatest images the Hubble Space Telescope has produced. BBC Four ...