For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

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

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 ...

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

The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: The Universe is expanding faster than predicted by ...

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

Our deepest look into space so far is the 10-day exposure by this telescope, called the Hubble Deep Field, that is celebrated in the first of the three "Mysteries of Deep Space" programs.

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 ...

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.

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.

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