Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion ...

In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...

New measurements of the universe’s expansion using James Webb Space Telescope appear to resolve the Hubble constant conflict ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has unveiled its first images, leaving astronomers in awe of the unprecedented ...

Thirty years later, Hubble continues to fascinate. Its famous images have helped astronomers answer some of space’s biggest questions, from How old is the universe? (13.8 billion years old) to ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

A brand-new, cutting-edge telescope called the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to release its first images to the world, and the public can watch in real time. On June 23 the observatory will ...

Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope set out to study how Uranus’s magnetic field interacts with its largest moons—but instead, they stumbled upon a surprising discovery. They ...