"The protostars are midway down the path to becoming mature stars." Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the ...

Dive into a celestial masterpiece with the Hubble Space Telescope's latest snapshot of the Large Magellanic Cloud, showcasing ...

What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

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

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

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

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

Our deepest look into space so far is the 10-day exposure by this telescope, called the Hubble Deep Field ... of only one location in a galaxy or nebula at a time. Yet it is spectra which are ...

A nebula is a giant cloud of dust and gas in space. Some nebulas come ... come from a single image taken by Hubble. It's called the "Hubble Ultra Deep Field" and was created when Hubble stared ...

This stunning image from the Hubble Space Telescope depicts a star-forming region called Sharpless 2-106, or S106 for short. Characterized by its "wings," it is classified as a bipolar nebula and ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is nearing its 35th anniversary ... gaze upon some of the same iconic nebulae and galaxies Hubble has observed," NASA officials said in a statement announcing the ...