With its origins tracing back to the 1970s, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery on ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of ...

The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...

New images from the decommissioned Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer the most detailed view of the cosmic microwave background. The data reveals early cosmic structures, tracks primordial gas ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy ... Hubble, but the newer James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has yet to view the system. JWST or ...