The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements ...

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

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...

NGC 4536 is a starburst galaxy with rapid star formation due to gas compression. Its bar-like structure channels gas toward ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both in the ...

Sankrit One of the most famous and beautiful cosmic sights shows its colors in this new image from ... and demonstrate how Hubble continues to provide stunning images of space, even as it ...

Related: The best Hubble Space Telescope images of all time! The bar-like structure of NGC 4536 may funnel gas inward towards ...

The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) is the deepest image of the Universe, created from a decade of observations in the Fornax constellation. Hubble captured the massive galaxy cluster MACS ...

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image ... about 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. Hubble images of this photogenic nebula were first taken in 1994 and 1997, and again ...