Distant stars can tell us about the history of planets closer to home. The image comes from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, an instrument NASA astronauts installed during a space shuttle servicing ...

Observations from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 make up this image. Its detailed nuance of color is the result of four separate filters. These thin slivers of highly specialized material can slide ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers from the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) and elsewhere have ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

The odd shapes of many of the galaxies are telltale evidence of those close encounters The new Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 observations suggest that energy from the star-birthing frenzy created ...

The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...

Astronomers have completed a stunning massive photomosaic of our closest celestial neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, comprised ...

Hubble's image captures WR 25 and Tr16-244, two massive stars in the Trumpler 16 cluster within the Carina Nebula, 7,500 light-years away. This large Hubble mosaic combines images from Wide Field ...

NASA's Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument captured this image of AFGL 5180, a beautiful stellar nursery located in the constellation of Gemini. This spectacular image captured by NASA ...

and near-infrared wavelengths with the telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3. This was followed by the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Southern Treasury (PHAST ...

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