On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...

From vibrant star-forming nebulae to supernova explosions, check out these 7 astonishing images of deep space shared by NASA.

Messier 42 better known as the Orion Nebula, with the unaided eye from a dark sky site. This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392) because, ...

In a stunning revelation, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has peered into the cosmic cradle of star formation, capturing an extraordinary view of young stars dramatically altering their celestial ...

Sydney teenager Ayat Hossain was enjoying the last of his school holidays when he drowned while swimming with friends at Werri Lagoon on south coast. Sydney student Ayat Hossain was enjoying the ...

This Hubble image reveals the Horsehead Nebula in infrared, showcasing its delicate, ethereal structure hidden within Orion’s dusty, turbulent star-forming region. Hubble captures NGC 346 ...

A teen has drowned and two others are lucky to be alive after getting into difficulty while swimming at a popular lagoon. Emergency services rushed to Werri Lagoon near Gerringong on the NSW ...

But Hubble determined that V1, located inside the Andromeda "nebula," was at a distance that far exceeded anything in our own Milky Way galaxy. This led Hubble to the jaw-dropping realization that ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Proposed budget reductions for the Hubble Space Telescope would impact research and outreach as well as increase the risk to the observatory, project officials warn.

Hubble captured an exploding star about 650 million light-years from Earth. The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about ...

The CO emission reveals cold, molecular gas that envelopes the hot gas and dust seen in images of the nebula obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and, more recently, the James Webb Space ...