The Hubble telescope has captured a spiral galaxy "face-on," with pink and orange bubbles depicting various star formations. The image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, a joint project of NASA and ...

In April 1990, a tin can the size of a school bus was dropped off 353 miles above the Earth’s surface. Its mission: Take clear pictures of the universe without interference from the planet’s ...

Astronomers have for the first time taken infrared pictures of individual stars in a galaxy called NGC 3379, about 30 million light years from Earth. The pictures were taken by Michael Gregg of the ...

NASA has released the most detailed and dramatic images ever taken of the distant dwarf planet Pluto. The images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope show an icy, mottled, dark molasses-colored world ...

Google Sky Map beta for Android is sort of like Google Maps for the night sky… except it doesn’t just let you locate the locations of stars, planets, constellations, and other astronomical features by ...

"The vivid, dramatic images of distant stars and galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have come to define how we visualize the cosmos. In their immediacy and vibrancy, photographs from the ...

NASA’s Hubble telescope this week got some great pictures of our most distant planet Pluto, showing what space agency researcher’s called an icy and dark molasses-colored, mottled world. But while the ...