One hundred five years ago tonight, astronomers Heber Curtis and Harlow Shapley were debating the distances of some of our ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

"We want to understand how these galaxies are forming stars, how many stars they’re forming, and especially how the black ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

A jaw-dropping video composite of the Milky Way showcases the awe-inspiring scale of the cosmos. The video, stitched together from a series of recent observations, reveals the vastness of our galaxy, ...

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.

A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star ...