The Hubble telescope is yielding new clues to the evolutionary history of Andromeda, and it looks markedly different from the Milky Way's history. Without Andromeda as a proxy for spiral galaxies ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

Video of the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations ... In addition to telling the turbulent history of the Andromeda Galaxy, the mosaic will now allow astronomers ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

The water ripples out from where the bird breaks the surface. The Hubble Space Telescope is helping scientists unravel the history of the two galaxies and the results of their cosmic meetup.

“This detailed look at the resolved stars will help us to piece together the galaxy’s past merger and interaction history,” Williams adds. Hubble, however, has its limits—the space ...

"The protostars are midway down the path to becoming mature stars." Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the Orion Nebula in a new Hubble Space Telescope image. Located about 1,300 ...

See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years away and has also been imaged by Hubble Space Telescope, comparison shown ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual galaxy with a bullseye structure, as nine rings ...

The Hubble Telescope took a snapshot of what astronomers are calling the Bullseye Galaxy. The distant galaxy contains nine rings of stars that were formed when a blue dwarf galaxy crashed through the ...