An curved arrow pointing right. The Orion Nebula is a giant gas cloud 1,344 light years away. It's also a cosmic factory for producing new stars. Astronomers recently observed over 900 small ...

To celebrate Hubble's 26th birthday photographing the universe, NASA released awesome images the telescope captured of the "Bubble Nebula" — which looks like a giant soap bubble in space.

For more than three decades, this venerable old telescope has been peering out into space, observing stars, galaxies, and nebulae to understand more about the universe we live in. To celebrate ...