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

"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ...

But with this new, larger telescope, Hubble was able to resolve images of the nebulae that showed individual stars. Around 1924, Hubble was looking at the Andromeda nebula and found to his ...

In 1994, the Hubble Space Telescope supposedly captured an image that corresponded, according to rumors at the time, to a celestial city that many claimed was heaven. Experts were quick to debunk ...

As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous supernova remnant. The Veil Nebula is roughly 2,400 light-years away in ...

It essentially made Hubble into a new telescope. "ACS has roughly ten times the discovery power of the previous camera," says Mario Livio, astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in ...

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 ...

The legendary Hubble Space Telescope has turned its gaze to the Ursa Major-adjacent galaxy UGC 5460, revealing spiral arms, star clusters and a possible supernova "imposter".

Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...