The name "blue lurker" might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of galaxies LEDA 48062 and UGC 8603. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Tully | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Music: Missing of Times by Joseph ...

When a boy named Elliott found an alien in the classic 1982 film "E.T." it offered easy answer ... and suggested it could get as large as 26 feet (8 m). The Hubble Space Telescope, for comparison ...

Hubble's contemporary ... realized that the expansion rate could be run back into time -- like rewinding a movie -- until the universe was unimaginably small, hot, and dense.

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun If you’ve ever done any public outreach work for astronomy—if you’ve given ...

High-resolution imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirmed eight rings, and data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii confirmed a ninth. Hubble and Keck also confirmed which ...

It might be old, bits of it might go offline with increasing regularity, but Hubble still does cutting edge science as this enormous portrait of Andromeda shows. Pop quiz: how old is the Hubble Space ...

The water ripples out from where the bird breaks the surface. The Hubble Space Telescope is helping scientists unravel the history of the two galaxies and the results of their cosmic meetup.

The name 'blue lurker' might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open ...