This spectacular star-forming region is one of the first images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area ...

In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...

Explore 6 of the most breathtaking space pictures captured by NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope, revealing the universe's wonders.

Scientists have discovered that something is making cosmic distance markers appear much farther away than they should be.

Hubble had been in space for less than two years when its Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph detected traces of boron in a not-too-distant star. At an estimated age of 14.5 billion years, the ...

This towering structure of billowing gas and dark, obscuring dust might only be a small portion of the Eagle Nebula, but it is no less majestic in appearance for it. 9.5 light-years tall and 7000 ...

Hubble has imaged the Veil Nebula before, most recently in 2015, but this newer image zooms in on a smaller area of the nebula to show it in detail. Its colors also represent different elements ...

In its center lies a white dwarf star. This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years away. These opaque, dark knots of gas ...

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), one of the most powerful astronomical tools ever built, spent over a decade capturing a high-resolution photomosaic of the Andromeda Galaxy. This monumental survey ...

One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a bygone sun-like star about 2,000 light-years from Earth. Its striking, smoke-ring-like appearance has both ...

The new image on the left shows the nebula in the infrared, using observations from Hubble’s high-resolution Wide Field Camera 3. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI); ESO ...