Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ever since.

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a rare "Einstein ring," revealing two distant galaxies in an optical illusion ...

Light from this new record-breaking galaxy, designated RUBIES-UDS-QG-z7, has been traveling to us for 13 billion years, meaning the JWST saw it as it was just 700 million years after the Big Bang ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud has fewer metals than our galaxy. That means conditions there are similar to the early universe. Hubble's ultraviolet, optical, and infrared perspectives are all ...

In the century or so since Edwin Hubble discovered that the Milky Way is just one of countless galaxies in the universe, our understanding of our home galaxy has grown in leaps and bounds. But as ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have made the first direct observation of star clusters colliding and merging at the hearts of dwarf galaxies. The discovery could help scientists ...

"We were surprised by the streams of light that were visible near the center of the galaxies, as nothing similar has been observed in the past." Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have ...

For decades, 3C 273 has helped scientists explore how black holes grow and interact with the galaxies around them. Now, with the help of a powerful instrument aboard Hubble, scientists have seen ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Hubble Space Telescope captured detailed images of the spiral galaxy NGC 4941, located 67 million light-years away in Virgo. The observations focus on star ...

It may have become a giant elliptical galaxy, an egg-shaped collection of trillions of stars. When multiple large galactic mergers occur, this type of galaxy usually forms as a result.