Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ...

The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered 36 new dwarf galaxies around Andromeda and ongoing star formation within them, contradicting previous theo ...

One of the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbors, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), is on display in a breathtaking image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Captured with Hubble’s Wide Field ...

The Andromeda galaxy, our cosmic neighbor, is far more turbulent than previously thought. A new survey by the Hubble Space ...

Lee (Space Telescope Science Institute); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous galaxy bursting with new ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a new image of the Veil Nebula, a supernova remnant from a star 20 times the mass of the sun that exploded 10,000 years ago.

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

A dazzling spiral galaxy and a brilliant foreground star create an illusion of proximity in a breathtaking new Hubble image. The star, much closer to Earth, stands out with its four diffraction spikes ...

From stars and nebulas shining hundreds of light-years away, to views of closer cosmic objects like Mars and Jupiter, the Hubble provides frequent reminders of just how small we are. A new ...

Though tiny, this newfound satellite galaxy around M31 offers big lessons — and questions — about how galaxies evolve.