"We were surprised by the streams of light that were visible near the center of the galaxies, as nothing similar has been ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

The beloved Hubble Space Telescope is reaching its 35th anniversary, and over the years it has taken some stunning images.

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

Related: The best Hubble Space Telescope photos of all time The newfound asteroids help refine the census of main belt asteroids, which is already estimated to be over a million. And some of the ...

If you've been wondering how long the day on Uranus is, you probably need to get out more. But if you have, you'll be ...

Hubble and its ... after the loss of the space shuttle Challenger. When the telescope finally became operational in 1990, it began to return unprecedented but flawed images. Its images were ...

Black holes and quasars are some of the most mysterious entities in the cosmos. Check out these 7 stunning images of black ...

You can make the case that none of them are in true color. But then again, if they were, they’d be unable to reveal the true nature of objects emitting or reflecting various kinds of otherwise ...

Related: The best Hubble Space Telescope images of all time! Classified as an open star cluster, NGC 460 is a loosely bound group of stars, held together by gravity. This type of cluster typically ...

NAS's James Webb Space Telescope has captured Neptune’s glowing auroras in the best detail yet. Hints of auroras were first ...

The SMC is close to the bigger Large Magellanic Cloud and is best seen from November to January — unless you're the Hubble Space Telescope, which recently zoomed in on the SMC to reveal its ...