From spellbinding images to groundbreaking scientific discoveries, we look back on some of Hubble's most exciting milestones.

The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was ...

Astronomers are applying new image-processing techniques to previously released Hubble observations in honor of the space ...

Elliptical galaxy NGC 3561B (upper left) and spiral galaxy NGC 3561A (lower right) form a shimmering guitar shape in the ongoing merger known collectively as Arp 105. CREDITS: NASA, ESA and M.

By analyzing the available observational data, astronomers from the Tribhuvan University in Nepal and elsewhere have ...

It's not clear whether it's a spiral galaxy, like our own Milky Way, or an elliptical galaxy. Curiously, the galaxy's disk seems like a fairly typical disk for a spiral galaxy, and its spheroidal ...

An elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy appear as one celestial body as a result of the effects of mass on spacetime, the fabric of the universe. Two celestial bodies become one in a rare cosmic ...

This first full month of spring also presents a micromoon, a chance to see an iconic (if distant) galaxy, and a very frisky Jupiter ... The moon’s elliptical orbit means that its distance ...

Five for viewing This week’s second large-telescope target is elliptical galaxy NGC 3640 in Leo the Lion. It glows at magnitude 10.3 and measures 4.0′ by 3.2′. Point your telescope 2.8 ...

like the Virgo cluster which contains our galaxy and its local group, are large, gravitationally bound structures dominated by mature elliptical galaxies with little star formation. Breaking space ...