In 1995, astronomers pointed the Hubble Telescope toward a seemingly empty spot in the sky. Because the telescope was purposely directed far away from the glare produced by stars in the Milky Way ...

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 ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Astronomers estimate 50,000 sources of near-infrared light are ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope are at the dawn of a new era in exploring the universe. With two powerful new instruments, added to Hubble in February 1997 by the crew of the Space ...

Hubble Deep Field by Dave Shave-Wall A negative image with the location of the HDF marked - several galaxies can be seen ...

Hubble’s 30th anniversary image turned into a 3D “spaceflight” experience“. New techniques are being used to transform images from the Hubble Space Telescope into spectacular 3D ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it -- the flickering star is 2.2 million ...

NASA and the European Space Station launched the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990, and over the past 34 years it’s been responsible for some of the most important discoveries in the universe.

Astronomers have employed the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to observe an ultra-diffuse galaxy known as VCC 615. Results of the observational campaign, presented in a paper posted Dec. 2 to the ...