During its short two-year mission, the observatory will help better understand things about the formation of the universe, ...

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

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful ...

Check out these seven mind-blowing nebula images captured by NASA Hubble Space Telescope. Eta Carinae, NGC 2014 and NGC 2020, ...

Since Hubble’s launch, astronomers have discovered over 1 trillion galaxies, but Andromeda stands out as the closest and most ...

At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his colleagues on his behalf reported that the Andromeda nebula, also called M31, was nearly a million light ...

His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way’s size and the nature of the nebulae. Hubble wrote about his discovery to Harlow Shapley, who had argued that the Milky ...

A new study using NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas.

Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...

A stunning Hubble image captured the Bullseye galaxy, revealing its nine rings formed by a smaller galaxy that plunged through its core 50 million years ago. Hubble’s latest image showcases a dazzling ...