In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded ... which captures the intensity of light from blue to red. Astronomers call a shift to longer wavelengths a redshift.

Despite its whimsical name, Quipu (pronounced “kee-poo”) is the largest confirmed superstructure in the universe to date in ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, which is located about 160,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud ...

For her pains, she was affectionately nicknamed “the mother of Hubble.” It was under her decades of leadership that observations made by the telescope helped build on Edwin Hubble’s work ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a galaxy in Gemini, hosting the Type Ia supernova SN 2022aajn, located 600 million light-years away. Type Ia ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an 'arrow' -- a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy -- shot ...