On April 24, 1990, all 24,000 pounds of the Hubble Space Telescope were tucked away inside the Discovery space shuttle when it launched into space. Thirty-five years later, NASA says Hubble has proven ...

WASHINGTON — The Hubble Space Telescope marked its 35th anniversary this week and NASA celebrated by releasing a series of stunning new photos from the observatory. With nearly 1.7 million ...

One shows the stellar nursery Carina Nebula, about 7,500 light years away. A light year is nearly 6 trillion miles. The photo shows an eerie backlit reddish cloud being bombarded by radiation. When ...

WASHINGTON (AP) ó A refurbished Hubble Space Telescope is showing Earth the sharpest photos yet of cosmic beauty, complete with heavenly glows. NASA on Wednesday unveiled the first deep space photos ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy ...

Since the early 1990s, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured breathtaking images of tens of thousands of celestial objects, inspiring a generation of professional scientists and amateur astronomers.