This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392) because, when viewed through ground-based telescopes, it resembles a face surrounded by a fur ...

Carina Nebula’s ‘Mystic Mountain’: This three-light-year-tall cosmic pinnacle, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope‘s Wide ...

Hubble captured the stunning star cluster NGC 2203, revealing its dazzling appearance. This cluster holds key insights into the lifetimes of stars. Hubble's 25th-anniversary image features Westerlund ...

Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, ...

Arp 282: This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has peered deeper than ever into a quasar, revealing a bunch of “weird” features in its […] ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful colors.

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have studied one of the largest young star clusters in our galaxy, ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...