Plato, the European Space Agency's terrestrial planet hunter spacecraft, is seen after having 24 of its 26 cameras installed.

There are few more iconic images from the Hubble Space Telescope than this one. A colossal pillar of gas and dust towering ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured twelve interacting galaxies with long, tadpole-shaped tidal tails. These collisions spark star formation, revealing 425 clusters of newborn stars along ...

What it is: An emission nebula, or star-forming region, named Sharpless 2-106 Where it is: 2,000 light-years away, in the constellation Cygnus When it was shared: December 2011 Why it's so special ...

including a bold rendition of Mars and a stunning photo of a moth-shaped nebula with a white dwarf star in the middle. Built ...

During his time in microgravity, Pettit, an inveterate tinkerer, said he likes to spend his free time either doing ...

On April 24, 1990, all 24,000 pounds of the Hubble Space Telescope were tucked away ... NASA has released stunning photos ...

"This view includes new data and is the first to combine Hubble observations made at infrared, optical and ultraviolet wavelengths." NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) just released a ...

But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... Just as gravity causes moons to orbit planets, planets to orbit stars and stars to orbit the centers of their galaxies, galaxies themselves ...

The anniversary celebration also included a countdown of images captured over the Hubble Space Telescope's lifetime so far, one for each year in orbit.