"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning images of black holes, revealing their energy and interactions with surroundings. These images sho ...

Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...

It essentially made Hubble into a new telescope. "ACS has roughly ten times the discovery power of the previous camera," says Mario Livio, astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in ...

But with this new, larger telescope, Hubble was able to resolve images of the nebulae that showed individual stars. Around 1924, Hubble was looking at the Andromeda nebula and found to his ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope are at the dawn of a new era in exploring the universe. With two powerful new instruments, added to Hubble in February 1997 by the crew of the Space ...