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

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

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

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 ...

With NICMOS, it should be possible to peer into the Hubble Deep Field to the distance where galaxies ... laboratories are submitting proposals to NASA this month for the possible forms that ...

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

It's called the "Hubble Ultra Deep Field" and was created when Hubble stared ... Observatory in Chile and the Digitized Sky Survey. NASA, ESA/Hubble, Hubble Heritage Team; E Hubble’s images ...

Astronomers estimate 50,000 sources of near-infrared light are represented in this image from NASA ... 2012's eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, was assembled by combining 10 years of Hubble Space ...

The US space agency (Nasa), which runs the observatory ... massive black holes at the centre of galaxies. The Deep Field images require Hubble to stare at the same patch of sky for days on end ...

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

How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?