In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

Hubble Captures a Distant Supernova The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking image of a supernova and its ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

This Hubble image reveals the Horsehead Nebula in infrared, showcasing its delicate, ethereal structure hidden within Orion’s dusty, turbulent star-forming region. Hubble captures NGC 346 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, for comparison, has a 6.5-foot (2 m) aperture, he said. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! Even the smallest ...

An international team of scientists has produced the clearest three-dimensional view yet of the Ring Nebula—one of the ... seen in images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the ...

But Hubble determined that V1, located inside the Andromeda "nebula," was at a distance that far exceeded anything in our own Milky Way galaxy. This led Hubble to the jaw-dropping realization that ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Proposed budget reductions for the Hubble Space Telescope would impact research and outreach as well as increase the risk to the observatory, project officials warn.

Hubble captured an exploding star about 650 million light-years from Earth. The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about ...

The CO emission reveals cold, molecular gas that envelopes the hot gas and dust seen in images of the nebula obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and, more recently, the James Webb Space ...