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

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

In the stunning new book Universe: Exploring the Astronomical ... assembled from multiple images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The smaller body off to the right of the image—little ...

Since 1990, the Hubble Space ... book goes over some of the discoveries enabled by the Hubble mission and breaks down the mysteries it has uncovered in plain English. It is also packed with photos ...

Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...

The Abell 370 photo also shows off a particularly cool cosmic coincidence that Hubble can exploit to humanity's advantage. The huge galaxy cluster actually warps the fabric of space and time ...

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".

Hubble and its ... after the loss of the space shuttle Challenger. When the telescope finally became operational in 1990, it began to return unprecedented but flawed images. Its images were ...

This Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 4900 appears ... the foundation for studying future supernovae by collecting images of more than 150 nearby galaxies. When supernova in one of these ...