With its origins tracing back to the 1970s, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery on ...

The beloved Hubble Space Telescope is reaching its 35th anniversary, and over the years it has taken some stunning images.

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of ...

Photo: Andromeda nebula plate with Hubble's handwritten circle around the variable star he discovered In 1919 American astronomer Edwin Hubble began work at the Mount Wilson Observatory in ...

Hubble had already used this knowledge in his 1924 discovery that the Andromeda nebula, containing a variable star, was more than 900,000 light years from Earth -- way beyond our own galaxy -- a ...

The photogenic nebula is a ... from galaxies. Hubble investigations continue to benefit from its long baseline of observations of solar system objects, stellar variable phenomena, and other ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

In anticipation of the upcoming 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/Hubble is kicking off the ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is always here to remind us, and a new snapshot of the distant Veil Nebula shows us that even the most bloated special effects budget can’t compare with what ...

In commemoration of Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable class star ... Once dismissed as a nearby "spiral nebula" measurements of Andromeda with its embedded Cepheid star served ...

and the Hubble Space Telescope can see them. Two new photos taken by the intrepid telescope and released to celebrate the eye on the sky's 28th birthday show the Lagoon Nebula, a region of space ...