Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place.

Launching on 24 April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has had an out-of-this-world 35 years capturing some of the most ...

In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope peers into the spiral galaxy NGC 1317 in the constellation Fornax, located ...

To mark the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, Space.com looks at some of the most scientifically significant images that have emerged from the observatory's lens.

The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 35th anniversary in space today, but even as a senior citizen in the spacecraft ...

UC Berkeley astronomers discovered a rogue black hole devouring a star 2,600 lightyears from its galaxy's core — the first ...

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too ...

Rather than solid arms, spiral galaxies may show density waves—regions where matter slows down and bunches up, like cars in ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team A vast stellar nursery is located 4,000 light-years away at the heart of the Lagoon ... of the magnificent spiral galaxy Messier 51 (M51), dubbed ...

At the heart of the nebula lie one or more ... Lenticular galaxies are elliptical objects; Hubble sees this particular galaxy nearly edge on. Scientists believe that the galaxy developed after ...

Finding a Massive Black Hole At the Center of an Active Galaxy (1994 ... collapsed objects actually sat at the heart of active galaxies. In 1994, Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera-2 captured ...

Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope, tucked onboard the space shuttle Discovery, blasted off Earth into history. Within a month ...