Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Hubble captured the stunning star cluster NGC 2203, revealing its dazzling appearance. This cluster holds key insights into the lifetimes of stars. Hubble's 25th-anniversary image features Westerlund ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

Arp 282: This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space ...

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

This Hubble image shows part of planetary nebula Caldwell 2 (NGC 40). Gas is expanding from the central star, which is at the ...

Hubble’s high-resolution imagery allowed researchers to hone in on more of the Bullseye galaxy’s rings — and helped confirm ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

NASA has captured breathtaking images of seven rare and stunning interacting galaxies, showcasing cosmic collisions, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most ... NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy, an "enticing empire of stars" that can be seen with the naked eye if weather conditions ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have studied one of the largest young star clusters in our galaxy, ...