The Hubble Space Telescope, a cornerstone of modern astronomy, has been providing breathtaking images and invaluable data for ...

On Monday, NASA — in tandem with the White House — released an incredible deep-field image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which demonstrates how this telescope will be able to look ...

The image’s subject is the galaxy cluster MACS0416, roughly 4.3 billion light-years from here. In point of fact, it’s actually two smaller galaxy clusters in the process of smashing into one another.

In 1990, a new eye into the cosmos launched from Kennedy Space Center. Hubble, a revolutionary new telescope, would soon bring a level of clarity and wonder to scientists and citizens alike. Hovering ...

It's easy to get the impression that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was built to outright replace what's perhaps history's most important space telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope. But because ...

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

NORFOLK, Va. — The year was 1990. The groundbreaking Hubble telescope was first launched into orbit, but it didn’t take long for scientists to see something was wrong. At the time it was called the ...

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nebulas such as NGC 2080. NGC 2080, nicknamed “The Ghost Head Nebula,” is one of a chain of star-forming regions lying south of the 30 Doradus nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud that have attracted ...

NASA has taken to its blog to share a new image captured by the famous Hubble Space Telescope, which honed its sensitive instruments on the globular star cluster known as Messier 55. NASA took to its ...

For almost a century, astronomers have been using the Hubble-Lemaitre constant to explain the accelerating expansion of the universe, an intrinsic piece of the puzzle that supports the Big Bang theory ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The open star cluster NGC 330, which lies around 180,000 ...