You may even have seen this cosmic bauble before. It's over 25,000 light years away from Earth, but with 330,000 stars packed tightly into it, it's often visible with the naked eye.

Space photo of the week: Hubble zooms in on the glittering galaxy next door. James Webb telescope reveals 'cosmic tornado' in best detail ever — and finds part of it is not what it seems.

In the case of Hubble's 35 light-year diameter 'celestial geode' the transparency of its bubble-like cavity of interstellar gas and dust reveals the treasures of its interior.

cosmic dawn Ellis' team used Hubble to take the first census of galaxies born during that so-called "cosmic dawn." The astronomers studied a patch of sky for more than 100 hours during a six-week ...

A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a smoke-wreathed keyhole among the stars.. The telescope returned an image of a so-called “reflection nebula” around 1,350 light ...

A recent image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the perfect dust laboratory in the sky and could help astronomers pin down the raw ingredients needed to give birth to baby stars.

In celebration of Labor Day this year, NASA shared a new Hubble image of a star cluster on Instagram. The image, which features thousands of stars and galaxies shining brightly, was shared on Monday.

Observatories routinely release "holiday themed" heavenly photos come late December, and this time the Hubble Space Telescope bears good cheer for 2012 in the form of a cosmic Christmas ornament.