In a nod to the global amateur astronomy community, as well as to any space enthusiast who enjoys the beauty of the cosmos, the Hubble Space Telescope mission is releasing its version of the popular ...

Starting in the mid-1700s, Charles Messier cataloged more than 100 galaxies, nebulas, star clusters and other objects — and today, they remain popular skywatching targets. Ninety-three of the objects ...

The Crab Nebula, known as Messier object M1, was generated in a supernova blast recorded by Chinese astronomers in 1054. Starting in the mid-1700s, Charles Messier cataloged more than 100 galaxies, ...

NASA has released a collection of 50 stunning Hubble images to celebrate the veteran telescope’s 30th anniversary, which took place earlier this year. The images show 30 cosmic objects, ranging from ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is famous for taking beautiful images of distant galaxies and nebulae, in some of which you can see stars being born. But this birth can be kick-started by destruction, with ...

NASA has released a breathtaking gallery of images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, showcasing celestial objects contained in the Messier catalog. The Messier collection was initially compiled ...

The next gallery opening in Venice is quite literally out of this world — on Friday, the European Space Agency and NASA announced a traveling gallery inspired by the images from the Hubble Space ...

With ten years in space (and counting), the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 has returned a treasure-trove of great images. Although many of these have been burned into our consciences, others have ...

This image shows two galaxies, LEDA 62867 and NGC 6786, beginning to fall into each other’s gravitational field. NGC 6787, right, will eventually swallow its smaller neighbor. The galaxies are located ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been wowing space fans with amazing cosmic views for 25 years, but only because of repairs and upgrades by visiting astronauts. See the tools astronauts used to fix and ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched 25 years ago and changed our view of the universe forever. Many of its images are iconic and earned Hubble a special place in Earthlings’ hearts. New Scientist ...