If you've been wondering how long the day on Uranus is, you probably need to get out more. But if you have, you'll be ...

Over the last two decades, astronomers have constructed new and better images of our deepest view of the universe, including the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and more recently, the eXtreme Deep Field ...

When a star comes to the end of its life and dies, it can be an epic and destructive event, throwing out an explosion of heat and light — but it can create stunning new forms as well. A gorgeous new ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

NASA and the European Space Station launched the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990 ... providing a more complete view of the cosmos.” ...

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 ...

Our deepest look into space so far is the 10-day exposure by this telescope, called the Hubble Deep Field, that is celebrated in the first of the three "Mysteries of Deep Space" programs.

This year’s installment on March 25 features Bob Williams, a scientist who was at the center of creating the Hubble Deep Space image. At the time Williams was director of the Space Telescope ...

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 ...

Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by picking up ammonia from and dropping it ...

Murray The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest galactic neighbors, which is full of bright, colorful stars. Located about 200,000 light-years from Earth ...