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 ...

Issues with Hubble's gyroscope have nagged the telescope ... Six new gyros were installed in 2009 during the fifth and final space shuttle servicing mission. NASA's shuttle program was retired ...

NASA's newest space shuttle, Atlantis, made its public debut during a rollout ceremony at the Rockwell International ...

The rest of the mission went like clockwork, including installation of a new cooling system for Hubble's near-infrared camera—NICMOS—useful for surveying dusty and cold areas of space ...

Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The newborn stars belong to a cluster known as NGC 460, which is located in a ...

Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) for over nine months, have ...

NASA released McAuliffe's lesson notes and practice videos several years after the shuttle disaster ... how experiments in space have led to new technology on Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope ...

With two powerful new instruments, added to Hubble in February 1997 by the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery, we can literally peer light years beyond what was possible before. Our deepest look ...