Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

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

"The hydrogen clouds are ionized by the radiation of nearby stars, causing them to glow." Related: The best Hubble Space ...

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 Hubble Space Telescope produced some jaw-dropping images of swirling galaxies, shining star clusters, and nebulae that channel the spirit of Thor's colorful bifrost bridge this year.

Related: The best Hubble Space Telescope photos of all time The newfound asteroids help refine the census of main belt asteroids, which is already estimated to be over a million. And some of the ...

A ground-based image of the galaxy cluster. Credit: NASA, ESA and Digitized Sky Surv The first Hubble deep field is still one of the best space photos ever taken (and this space reporter's ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sankrit “This view combines images taken in three different filters by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, highlighting emission from hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen atoms.

Perhaps future missions to the outer solar system, as well as future observations by Hubble and the James Webb space telescope, will help us learn even more about this icy-ringed gas giant and ...

Related: The best Hubble Space Telescope images of all time! Classified as an open star cluster, NGC 460 is a loosely bound group of stars, held together by gravity. This type of cluster typically ...