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

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

The subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. This galaxy is situated 40 million light-years away in the constellation Lupus, the Wolf, and ...

A professor who created a crucial part of the Hubble Space Telescope has been elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Professor Asad Madni is joined by cartoonist and artist Kate ...

As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous supernova remnant. The Veil Nebula is roughly 2,400 light-years away in ...

There's no problem, however, with what a team of researchers say is likely a stable trio of icy space rocks in the solar system's Kuiper Belt, found using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a system of asteroids in the distant Kuiper Belt may be triplets, not twins as previously suspected.

This is what is known as a "low-metallicity" region. The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young central star cluster ...