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

It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which ...

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 ...

just as NASA space shuttle astronauts did with Hubble, according to early designs. The space telescope will have four primary instruments, including a super-sensitive coronagraph that can detect ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

NASA used spare parts from its shuttle fleet to create the new orbiter. Endeavour flew into space 25 times. Among other career highlights, its crew members performed the first Hubble Space ...

That's one advantage of having a space telescope in orbit for so long: Hubble was launched from the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990, and its long service has enabled it to capture a huge ...

The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a supernova-hosting galaxy located about 600 million light-years ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint ...

The space shuttle and International Space Station are set to launch onto coins to celebrate advancements made by Texas and Florida. The U.S. Mint has released designs for American Innovation dollars.

We can get a peek into that neighboring dwarf galaxy - which is only about 15% the size of our Milky Way - because of the Hubble Space Telescope. That galaxy is about 160,000 light years away.