The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...

Space telescopes are prominent uses of optical technologies. Launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope is renowned for its ...

Data collected by Hubble has also revealed a live Type I supernova called SN 2017GAX, which can be seen tucked just below the ...

It seems like almost yesterday that a teacher told me when I was very young, that the Milky Way was the very end of our ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space telescopes ...

JWST, a groundbreaking space observatory, enhances our understanding of the cosmos by studying distant galaxies, star ...

NGC 1672, a stunning barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years away in the constellation Dorado, puts on a dazzling ...

NASA This is the image of Little Dumbbell Nebula located 3,400 light-years away from Earth. This was shared by NASA to ...

A traveling exhibit will be on display at the Putnam Museum with a close-up view of the stars. NASA’s Hubble: New Views of ...

Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to capture unprecedented details of the extensive debris ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the "ram pressure" inside a massive cluster of galaxies.

Hubble Space Telescope can "only see the universe in shades of grey," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Learn ...