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

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

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the picturesque spiral galaxy NGC 4941, which lies about 67 million light ...

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 ...

A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This ...

Get ready to be amazed by the breathtaking beauty of spiral galaxies! NASA has shared stunning images of these cosmic wonders ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced a massive photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing more than 200 million stars. The study offers fresh insights into Andromeda’s evolutionary ...

Newly-processed image of Small Magellanic Cloud star cluster shows that this old space telescope can still impress with its ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of ...

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

New images from the decommissioned Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer the most detailed view of the cosmic microwave background. The data reveals early cosmic structures, tracks primordial gas ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The starburst galaxy NGC 4536, seen here in a photo by the Hubble Space Telescope, has bright ...