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

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

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

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

"The question 'Are we alone?' is one of the most significant questions, not just in the history of science, but in the ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble ...

The picture, snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals Jupiter shining in ultraviolet light. In the image, Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot, which appears red in visible light, is a instead a ...

Hubble captured an exploding star about 650 million light-years from Earth. The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation ...

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 ...

Observations with the South Pole Telescope have revealed an independent addition to the biggest problem in cosmology.