The unveiling today of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a spectacular new set of images from the Hubble Space Telescope, brings mixed emotions to astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, ...

Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious event that could reveal the existence of a "rogue planet" drifting through ...

Behind the dusty clouds of the Cigar Galaxy lies a dazzling powerhouse of star formation, where stars are being born ten times faster than in the Milky Way. Astronomers using the Hubble Space ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been deployed since April 25, 1990. Yesterday marked 25 years since it began its mission to help us better understand the cosmos. To commemorate this noteworthy ...

Nearly a millennium ago, astronomers witnessed a brilliant new star blazing in the sky—a supernova so bright it was visible in daylight for weeks. Today, its expanding remnant, the Crab Nebula, ...

In brief: Astronomers have been studying Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot for more than 150 years yet surprisingly, new details continue to surface. The latest discovery comes courtesy of NASA's Hubble ...

Hubble had been in space for less than two years when its Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph detected traces of boron in a not-too-distant star. At an estimated age of 14.5 billion years, the star ...