As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

Once in space, the Space Shuttle Orbiter became an autonomous space station, using a combination of powerful thrusters, advanced avionics, and life-support systems to maintain orbit. This video breaks ...

Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars, reside in a hotbed for star ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.

That's one advantage of having a space telescope in orbit for so long: Hubble was launched from the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990, and its long service has enabled it to capture a huge ...

The stunning panorama features over 600 overlapping Hubble images that have been painstaking stitched together. Spread across 2.5 billion pixels, you'll find some 200 million stars ...

A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Proposed budget reductions for the Hubble Space Telescope would impact research and outreach as well as increase the risk to the observatory, project officials warn.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty ... it's a binary star system where two young protostars orbit each other. Each star has a small, dusty disk of material surrounding ...

This Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy LEDA ... in which a pair of stars orbit a common center of mass. "When a white dwarf siphons material from a stellar partner, the white ...