A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

That could soon change, thanks to a new NASA flagship telescope being designed to seek out strange new worlds that could ...

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about 650 ...

In this special Hubble image 23 years in the making, the sparkling spiral galaxy UGC 10043 reveals the secrets of its ...

This mission laid the groundwork for iconic servicing efforts, including those for the Hubble Space Telescope. On Jan. 28, 1986, NASA's space shuttle program saw its darkest day at the time ...

Proposed budget reductions for the Hubble Space Telescope would impact research and outreach as well as increase the risk to ...

Hubble and its fellow observatories give us ... The telescope's original October 1986 launch was scrapped after the loss of the space shuttle Challenger. When the telescope finally became ...

Hubble launched to space on April 24, 1990, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. Since then, the space telescope has captured some of the most incredible images of the cosmos and made numerous ...

The Hubble Telescope has spotted an unusual spiral galaxy – 76 million light-years away – that resembles an eye ...

Approaching Hubble with its massive solar panels could prove extremely difficult and risky. SpaceX's spacecraft also doesn't have a robotic arm, like NASA's Space Shuttle, which was used to ...

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