CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A dying star has never looked so lovely. The Gemini North Telescope atop Hawaii’s tallest peak, ...

An amateur astrophotographer from Uttarakhand has captured the Triangulum Galaxy, a spiral galaxy located 2.7 million ...

See views of The Horsehead Nebula, the Perseus Cluster of galaxies, spiral galaxy IC 342, irregular galaxy NGC 6822 and ...

NASA has published a new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope depicting a nearby spiral galaxy “glittering” with clusters of stars ...

The image is created using observations in six different colour bands, allowing scientists to study different features of the galaxy.

A new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a spectacular nebula in all its glory. (And yes, it does kind of look like a cosmic sea slug.) Nearly 30 years ago, Hubble looked at the Trifid ...

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a magnificent view of the Flaming Star Nebula blazing in the night sky some 1,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Auriga, the Charioteer. Meyer's ...

For ages, mapping the precise architecture of our home galaxy has been a challenge similar to attempting to draw a complete map of a vast, brightly lit city while standing trapped in the dense, hazy ...

It's been 35 years since Hubble came online, so in honor of the intrepid telescope's 35th anniversary, we've put together this gallery of our favorite Hubble images. The Hubble Space Telescope was ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...

A nebula is a luminescent giant cloud of dust and gas in space that could be from a supernova or could be a star-forming region. The "dumbbell nebula," also known as Messier 27, is what astronomers ...