In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy, named UGC 10043. We don’t see the galaxy’s spiral arms ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble image of the Westerlund 2 cluster was released to mark 25 years of groundbreaking discoveries and stunning visuals in space exploration. This visible-light image captures the ...

This process won't be complete for many millions of years — until then, Queen Berenice II will have to suffer the knots in ...

UGC 10043 is a spiral galaxy seen edge-on, featuring a distinct dust lane and a prominent bulge that suggests interaction with a nearby dwarf galaxy. Captured by Hubble's long-term data collection, ...

Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...

It currently orbits about 332 miles/535 km above Earth, completing one orbit approximately every 95 minutes The iconic space telescope won't last forever. Hubble’s orbit is decaying and if it ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope are at the dawn of a new era in exploring the universe. With two powerful new instruments, added to Hubble in February 1997 by the crew of the Space ...