An incredible picture of a triple-star system in the Taurus constellation, known as a "glittering cosmic geode," has been taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spied three young stars shining through a nebula as they orbit each other, one of which is about to ignite. This "glittering cosmic geode" triple-star system ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking image of Arp 184, also known as NGC 1961, a peculiar spiral galaxy located 190 million light-years away in the ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful colors.

Observations taken using the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI), which is optimized for visible blue wavelengths, revealed that this smaller galaxy is not only close to Bullseye, at a distance of just ...

Astronomers have reached deeper into the heart of a brilliant cosmic engine than ever before, using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to capture a rare, close-up view of a quasar’s core. Quasars ...

Looking like a glittering cosmic geode, a trio of dazzling stars blaze from the hollowed-out cavity of a reflection nebula in this new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The triple-star ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere.

Hubble Reveals a Giant Cosmic "Bat Shadow"Shadows on Earth can be mysterious and foreboding, but when they occur in space, they can convey information we otherwise could not know. In a stellar ...

An infant star in a faraway system will likely someday look like our very own sun, and the Hubble Telescope snapped a lovely image of it.

Hubble Reveals a Giant Cosmic 'Bat Shadow'The disk’s shadow is similar to what is produced by a cylindrical lamp shade. Light escapes from the top and bottom of the shade, but along its ...