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

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

Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.The ...

A stunning Hubble image showcases a spiral galaxy seemingly intertwined with a nearby star—but looks can be deceiving! This ...

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...

Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.

ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray This gorgeous new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows something once considered little more than an annoyance: cosmic dust. For many years, astronomers thought ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sankrit One of the most famous and beautiful cosmic sights shows its colors in this new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The Veil Nebula is the remnant of a massive ...

This colorful new view combines images that were taken in three different filters by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and highlights hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen atoms. It is showing only a tiny ...

"This dust is different from ordinary household dust, which may include [tiny] bits of soil, skin cells, hair and even plastic," NASA officials said in the statement releasing the new Hubble image.

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.

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 ...