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

NASA released six stunning images from the Hubble Telescope showcasing interacting galaxies, including the chaotic beauty of ...

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

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted a cosmic Bullseye galaxy, revealing evidence of a rare kind of galactic collision.

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...

This image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744 is from the Frontier Fields project, using natural gravitational lenses and ...

Hubble’s latest image of the Tarantula Nebula highlights cosmic dust, interstellar gas, and active star formation.

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Hubble’s high-resolution imagery allowed researchers to hone in on more of the Bullseye galaxy’s rings — and helped confirm ...