Watch the mesmerizing Tarantula Nebula video captured by the Hubble telescope, showcasing the most productive star-forming region nearby, with insights into cosmic dust and star formation.

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

This image of the Crab Nebula (also known as Messier 1) in the constellation of Taurus is an overlay of one of the first-light images taken by the CONCERTO instrument on the APEX telescope. The Crab ...

At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his colleagues on his behalf reported that the Andromeda nebula, also called M31, was nearly a million light ...

Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and busiest star-creating areas in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.

A century ago, Edwin Hubble first established that this so-called 'spiral nebula' was actually very far outside our own Milky Way galaxy -- at a distance of approximately 2.5 million light-years ...

Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...

Some were gaseous, star-forming regions, such as the Orion nebula ... were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble’s results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted a cosmic Bullseye galaxy, revealing evidence of a rare kind of galactic collision.