A host of supermassive black holes populating the universe during the cosmic dark ages appears to drastically exceed estimates for how many billion-solar-mass black holes should have existed back ...

The galaxies were found in the same path of the night sky—close to the Big Dipper—where the iconic Hubble Ultra Deep Field image was taken. When JWST began operations last summer several ...

2012's eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, was assembled by combining 10 years of Hubble Space Telescope ... [+] photographs taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field.

The elliptical galaxy NGC 4660 is one of a hundred galaxies imaged by Hubble that are members of the nearest large galaxy cluster to Earth, the Virgo Cluster. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has ...

LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image ...

This image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744 is from the Frontier Fields project, using natural gravitational lenses and ...

The Hubble Deep Field, shown here, is a patch of sky in the constellation of Ursa Major the Great Bear. It was originally chosen because it was an empty and apparently blank patch of sky - so no ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers from the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) and elsewhere have observed an ultra-diffuse ... HST's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).

Beauty Of Tarantula Nebula This nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most active star-forming regions, filled ...

Hubble gazes at galaxies all the time—the famous Hubble Deep Field images alone show countless galaxies in faraway parts of the universe. Andromeda, however, is much closer and takes up more of ...

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field space telescope has taken pictures of a piece of space which is so far away the light has taken 13 billion years to reach us. This clip is from the series Wonders of ...