In 1758, a French astronomer started cataloging stars and comets through a ground telescope. Today, Hubble and amateur ...

A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows Messier 55, also known as M55, about 20,000 light-years away. The loosely concentrated globular star cluster is large and bright, but lacks a dense core ...

This photograph, which was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows space matter 6,500 light-years away from Earth ... Looking closely at the pale areas in the shot, slabs of methane ice add to the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been scouring the heavens from space for more than 30 years, making it one of the greatest success stories in astronomy. The latest notch in Hubble’s belt is the ...

The European Space Agency, which collaborates with NASA on the Hubble telescope, offered a comparison between what Uranus looked like in 2014 — seven years after its vernal equinox — and an ...

These planets receive very little sunlight and take years to decades to complete one orbit around the sun. Still, when scientists compare Hubble Space Telescope images of these planets captured ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope team released dazzling new images of two star-studded clusters light-years away. The globular cluster Messier 14, or M14, is home to more than 150,000 stars.

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The 'jellyfish galaxy' JW100 lies more than 800 million light-years from Earth ... central disk like tentacles of a jellyfish in a new Hubble Space Telescope photo. Located over 800 million ...

which spans 100 light-years. NASA compares an image of the globular cluster taken by the Digital Sky Survey, a ground-based telescope, left, to Hubble's picture. Credit: NASA / ESA / A.

There was a magic moment for a few years around the end of the 1980s, when home computers were better than professional ones. That’s a mighty grand pronouncement, but it refers to the crop of 16 ...

A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows Messier 55, also known as M55, about 20,000 light-years away. The loosely concentrated globular star cluster is large and bright, but lacks a dense core and ...