With its origins tracing back to the 1970s, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery on ...

The Hubble image reveals that the dust inside ... peculiar shape and star-forming activity that classify it as a lenticular galaxy." Lenticular galaxies don’t have the characteristic arms ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

A new Hubble image highlights the intricacies of a distant galaxy glowing with a bright white core surrounded by complex dust structures. A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the ...

Hubble observed NGC 5042 in six wavelength bands from the ultraviolet to infrared to create this multicolored portrait. The galaxy's cream-colored center is packed with ancient stars, and the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The starburst galaxy NGC 4536, seen here in a photo by the Hubble Space Telescope, has bright ...

Washington (CNN)-- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has reached back 13.2 billion years -- farther than ever before in time and space -- to reveal a "primordial population" of galaxies never seen before.

The Hubble Space Telescope has released a new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430, located 100 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo Minor. The image reveals NGC 3430 as a ...