For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

The Hubble Telescope has spotted an unusual spiral galaxy – 76 million light-years away – that resembles an eye ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

For 10 days, Hubble collected faint light from the extremely small patch of black space. This resulting image ... The snapshot, dubbed the Hubble Deep Field contained thousands of nearby and ...

The stars aligned for the planetarium's dome to become the backdrop for four readings of 'REDshift,' by playwright Chalmers ...

2012's eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, was assembled by combining 10 years of Hubble Space Telescope ... [+] photographs taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field.

Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?

Cosmic Leviathan: A galaxy cluster, resembling a submerged sea monster, distorts spacetime around it, as captured by the ...

Edwin Hubble was the first astronomer to take the initial steps that would ultimately lead to the Hubble Space Telescope, revealing a seemingly infinite ocean of galaxies. He thought that, despite ...