Astronomers have witnessed the titanic collision between two neutron stars that resulted in the birth of the smallest ...

From the star-forming Carina Nebula, located 7,600 light-years away, to the dramatic bipolar region Sharpless 2-106, Hubble ...

The previous record-setter was a star called Icarus. Again, captured by Hubble, the light from this star took nine billion years to reach us. Earendel is therefore significantly further away.

Omega Centauri: Using over 500 images captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope over two decades, astronomers ...

Hubble and its fellow observatories give us an ... broad rings of material orbiting a star) and "the dirty" (dust-obscured processes such as star and planet formation). Chandra captures the ...

Why it's so special: This stunning image from the Hubble Space Telescope depicts a star-forming region called Sharpless 2-106, or S106 for short. Characterized by its "wings," it is classified as ...

Photo: Andromeda nebula plate with Hubble's handwritten circle around the variable star he discovered In 1919 American astronomer Edwin Hubble began work at the Mount Wilson Observatory in ...

For an astronomical object (e.g. a star or a galaxy) at a known distance from the Earth, the Hubble constant can be used to predict how fast it should be moving away from us. However, the true value ...

Some space images have become timeless icons of our exploration of the cosmos. Take the famous photo of the Pillars of ...