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

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 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 ...

The name 'blue lurker' might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open star ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Proposed budget reductions for the Hubble Space Telescope would impact research and outreach as well as increase the risk to the observatory, project officials warn.

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