The universe suddenly looks a lot more crowded, thanks to a deep-sky census assembled from surveys taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories. Astronomers came… Read more “10 Times More Galaxies Than Previously Thought”

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the universe is expanding 5 percent to 9 percent faster than expected. “This surprising finding may be an… Read more “Universe may be expanding faster than expected”

In 2005, Caltech astronomers Mike Brown and Chad Trujillo discovered dwarf planet Makemake, currently believed to be the third largest object in the Kuiper Belt after Pluto… Read more “Meet the newest member of our solar system”

The elegant simplicity of NGC 4111, seen here in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, hides a more violent history than you might think. NGC… Read more “Elegance conceals an eventful past”

This image shows the position of the most distant galaxy discovered so far within a deep sky Hubble Space Telescope survey called GOODS North (Great Observatories Origins… Read more “Hubble breaks cosmic distance record”

Just in time for the release of the movie “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens,” NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has photographed what looks like a cosmic,… Read more “Hubble Checks out a Home for Old Stars”

Many stars end their lives with a with a bang, but only a few of these stellar explosions have been caught in the act. When they are,… Read more “First-ever predicted exploding star”

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken its deepest-yet look into the cosmos to see some of the earliest galaxies that popped into existence only a few hundred… Read more “Hubble Sees ‘First Light’ Galaxies at Dawn of Time”

Main image: Hubble observations have taken advantage of gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the universe. Some of… Read more “Hubble Spies Big Bang Frontiers”