In a close-up of the Rosette Nebula — a stellar nursery 5,200 light-years away — dark clouds of gas and dust are seen being carved by radiation from massive stars. A young star at the upper right is ...

From spellbinding images to groundbreaking scientific discoveries, we look back on some of Hubble's most exciting milestones.

Exactly 35 years ago this week, the Hubble Space Telescope was released from the Space Shuttle Discovery cargo hatch. Four ...

In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the legendary space telescope’s launch, here are 35 of our favorite images it has ...

For 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken photos of celestial objects across the universe. Look back at 10 photos ...

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of ...

What appears to be a single, strangely shaped galaxy is actually two galaxies ... That's over two-and-a-half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's mirror, meaning Webb has six times ...