Thirty years ago, an 11-day space shuttle mission involving seven veteran astronauts performed the first servicing mission to correct the Hubble Space Telescope's blurred vision. The unprecedented ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a scale model (1:20) of the ...

After 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope is still churning out hits. In just the last year or so, scientists have used the school bus–sized observatory to confirm the first lone black hole, reveal ...

In this Hubble image, the giant red nebula, NGC 2014, and its smaller blue neighbour, NGC 2020, are part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy of the Milky Way, ...

See the iconic Pillars of Creation in this 3D visualization created from James Webb and Hubble Space Telescope data. Credits ...

WATCH: Of all the grand experiments launched in space, the Hubble telescope is among the most daring. It has sent back astonishing pictures that have opened up a window into deep space, teaching us ...

Arp 184 or NGC 1961, a skewed or "peculiar" spiral galaxy, is still stunning in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. One of the 338 formations cataloged by astronomer Halton Arp in 1966 in his ...

Dusty gas clouds sparkle in the Large Magellanic Cloud. What might look like sparkling wisps of candy floss, or cotton candy, are dusty gas clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy, as ...

Last time I wrote about new data that overturns the standard cosmological model. Before anyone starts dusting off their ...