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

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

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

A Distant Supernova Discovery This latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope features a distant galaxy located about 600 ...

Astronomers have released the most comprehensive photograph of the Andromeda galaxy, which contains over 200 million stars.

This intriguing star, studied by the Hubble Space Telescope, lies in the depths of the open star cluster known as M67, about 2,800 light-years from Earth. Its unusual name hints at the mysterious and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Little could Hubble have imagined that 70 years later, an extraordinary telescope named after him, lofted hundreds of miles above the Earth, would continue his legacy. The marvelous telescope made ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...

Following up on the groundbreaking 2020 discovery of newborn jets in a number of quasars, aspiring naval officer Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy has used NASA's Hubble Space ...