This towering structure in the Eagle Nebula is a 9.5 light-year-high column of gas and dust from a stellar nursery. This image shows N90, where bright young stars carve a cavity, with distant galaxies ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

Glimpse Into the Orion Nebula The Hubble Space Telescope’s latest Picture of the Week offers a stunning glimpse into the ...

An international team of scientists has produced the clearest three-dimensional view yet of the Ring Nebula—one of the night ...

See amazing imagery of the Carina Nebula as captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center astrophysicist Amber Straughn explains. Credit: NASA ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

Hubble beholds brilliant blue star cluster: NGC 2031 contains a sizable population of Cepheid variable stars (at least 14), which are stars that brighten and dim periodically. The stellar grouping ...

Many know the Great Orion Nebula (M42) in Orion’s Sword as a bright diffuse nebula — a glowing cloud of cosmic gas illuminated by the Trapezium star cluster. But the Orion Nebula also has a ...

From the debris ring of dust, rock, and ice, which is too distant to be seen, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured the shadow cast by a fledgling star’s brilliant light. The star is named HBC 672 in ...