Ninety-three of the objects have been imaged by the Hubble Space ... gallery that shows their glittering, shining shapes in stunning detail. Messier began his list of cosmic treasures while ...

Looking like a glittering cosmic geode, a trio of dazzling stars blaze from the hollowed-out cavity of a reflection nebula in this new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The triple-star ...

A new image of deep space reveals a distant globular ... stellar bodies like a swarm of glittering bees swarming around a cosmic beehive. The image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope focuses ...

It kind of looks like a snow globe -- or maybe like the glittering ornament atop a massive ... But this image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows Messier 92. Messier 92 is a globular cluster ...

but the mind-bending distortions visible in this impressive image taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 are actually caused by a cosmic phenomenon. The bright galaxies at the center of the frame ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near ... something once considered little more than an annoyance: cosmic dust. For many years, astronomers thought of dust ...

The disc itself is so small and far away from Earth that not even Hubble can detect it encircling its host star. However, the shadow feature -- nicknamed the Bat Shadow -- reveals details of the ...

The James Webb Telescope, which is set to launch in 2018, will be able to look much deeper into space — and, therefore, earlier into cosmic history — than the Hubble can.