Kohoutek 4-55 is a dazzling planetary nebula captured in vivid color by the Hubble Space Telescope. Formed by the dramatic death of a giant star, this cosmic cloud glows with energized gases and ...

With its origins tracing back to the 1970s, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery on ...

Until they age out of their nursery, those stars will hang out in NGC 346, a majestic stellar cradle. The Hubble Space Telescope has captured that cradle in dazzling detail, rivaling even the James ...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

NASA's Hubble has captured stunning images of NGC 4941, revealing details of star formation, helping scientists understand ...

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) telescope took its ...

The beloved Hubble Space Telescope is reaching its 35th anniversary, and over the years it has taken some stunning images.

On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have unveiled a striking new ...

Euclid was launched atop a Falcon 9 in early July 2023 on a mission to map nearly a third of the sky in incredible detail.

The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...