Some astronomical images become famous because they are beautiful. Others are important because they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Credit: NASA/ESA) It's been 35 years since Hubble came online, so in honor of the intrepid telescope's 35th anniversary, we've ...

Covering a tiny patch of sky spanning less than a tenth of the full moon, the famous "Hubble eXtreme Deep Field" image revealed thousands of galaxies, including objects from the universe infancy. The ...

How far can our telescopes see into space? In 1995, R. Williams (NASA) and the Hubble Deep Field Team used the HST to image an area above the famous Big Dipper star pattern--an area that appeared ...

Today's Image of the Day from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures a crowded region of deep space. Galaxies gather in enormous clusters, stars shine sharply in the ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular red, white, and blue view of one of the Milky Way's oldest star clusters to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary. Hidden within the ancient ...

NASA is about to launch a space observatory that could help settle some of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy. The ...

The unveiling today of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a spectacular new set of images from the Hubble Space Telescope, brings mixed emotions to astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, ...

Hubble's First Deep Field It's easy to look at the stellar (pun thoroughly intended) array of images available to any astronomy aficionado today and feel a little let down by the original Hubble Deep ...