A huge black hole is tearing through space, leaving behind a 200,000-light-year-long trail of newborn stars, space scientists said.

There’s no bursting this bubble. The folks at the Hubble Space Telescope have released magnificent images of a “gigantic cosmic soap bubble” to celebrate Hubble’s 26th anniversary in space.

A photo of a galactic merger captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a galaxy known as NGC 1487, located 30 million light-years away from Earth, but rather than viewing it as an object, NASA said it can be thought of as an "event."

The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is reaching some key milestones in its preparation for launch in 2018.

The newly revealed Nasa Hubble Space Telescope image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4845, located over 65 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin).

In the quarter-century that it's been eyeing the cosmos, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken some pretty spectacular photos of "a dying star's final moment.