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 ...

It was the deepest portrait of the universe ever taken at the time. The snapshot, dubbed the Hubble Deep Field contained thousands of nearby and distant galaxies. The image represents only a tiny ...

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

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Southworth presents the world premier of REDshift, a play inside the planetarium about Elisse, a high-functioning autistic young woman whose passion leads her to use the Hubble Space Telescope to ...