Researchers say the surprising discovery of the faraway galaxy MXDFz4.4 could help explain how the cosmos went from opaque to ...

A spectacular new image from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope has revealed one of the most vibrant stellar nurseries ever ...

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 ...

A faraway galaxy has been caught blowing away the cosmic fog of hydrogen that filled the universe once upon a time.

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found something they never expected—ultraviolet light from a galaxy that existed just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang. That galaxy contains ...

A new Hubble image of galaxy cluster MACS J1141.6-1905 looks almost impossibly crowded — dozens of galaxies in different shapes and sizes packed toward the center of the frame, interrupted here and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Andromeda galaxy helped Edwin Hubble settle a great debate in astronomy. Stocktrek Images via Getty Images A hundred years ago ...

Located around 30 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, the Sombrero Galaxy is instantly recognisable. Viewed nearly edge on, the galaxy’s softly luminous bulge and sharply outlined ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, which incorporates six different wavelengths of light. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might ...