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

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

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

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

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex atmospheric changes on Uranus that are largely driven by the effects of the sun's ...

Now, in an unprecedented study spanning two decades, researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered new insights into the planet's atmospheric composition and dynamics. This was ...

A light-year is equivalent to almost 6 trillion miles.Launched in 2021 as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, Webb observed the scene in the infrared. NASA said in a statement it was "a ...

On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched onboard Space Shuttle Discovery, and the next day was deployed in space. It was the first astronomical observatory placed in orbit around ...