This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both in the ...

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 ...

The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...

One of the faraway AGN, labeled 105212, brightened by 0.3 ... as Hayes' team writes in its research paper, the Hubble Space Telescope has provided a head start.

The spiral galaxy UGC 5460 shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. UGC 5460 sits about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The starburst galaxy NGC 4536, seen here in a photo by the Hubble Space Telescope, has bright ...