The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the most distant single star found yet. It took the light from the star 12.9 billion light years to reach Earth. Learn how it was discovered. Credit; ...

The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.

Astronomer using Hubble discovers "young stars that are spiraling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small ...

Created by a young star, the bipolar star-forming region Sharpless 2-106 in this Hubble image depicts how intense the ...

Quasars are awe-inspiring – among the brightest objects in the Universe, behind gamma-ray bursts and supernovae. Unlike other ...

From orcas wearing salmon hats to April's total solar eclipse, it's been a big year for science news. We've brought together ...

New data confirms Hubble's finding and refutes current theories of planet formation in the universe’s early days. Thanks to ...

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

Hubble launched to space on April 24, 1990, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. Since then, the space telescope has captured ...

Space station crews spend the holidays away from family and friends, but that doesn’t stop them from celebrating in space.

In 2024, the radio receivers on and around the human homeworld captured a variety of fascinating emissions, some of which are ...

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...