The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

Hubble and its fellow observatories give us ... Endeavour performed five days of spacewalks to repair the telescope in orbit some 353 miles (569 kilometers) above the Earth. The repair worked ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

The Hubble Space Telescope’s remarkably long service life and its string of astonishing contributions to astronomy belie its troubled history. Long before its launch into low Earth orbit in 1990 ...

Once in space, the Space Shuttle Orbiter became an autonomous space station, using a combination of powerful thrusters, advanced avionics, and life-support systems to maintain orbit. This video breaks ...

Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars, reside in a hotbed for star formation: the Orion Nebula, which is the nearest massive star-forming region to ...

The stunning panorama features over 600 overlapping Hubble images that have been painstaking stitched together. Spread across 2.5 billion pixels, you'll find some 200 million stars ...

Hubble snapped the image about six weeks after ... in which a pair of stars orbit a common center of mass. "When a white dwarf siphons material from a stellar partner, the white dwarf can become ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the ... it's a binary star system where two young protostars orbit each other. Each star has a small, dusty disk of material surrounding ...