The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 35 years of groundbreaking discoveries, stunning imagery, and a lasting impact on ...

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14 ...

In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the Hubble ...

This week marks 35 years since Hubble first left Earth aboard the space shuttleDiscovery. Instead of receiving birthday ...

SEE ALSO: Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Video: The Final Flight According to a report by Matt Novak at Gizmodo, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) -- the secretive intelligence organization ...

Hubble launched on April 24, 1990, stowed inside the cargo bay of space shuttle Discovery. STS-31 was Discovery's 10th launch, and it was the 35th space shuttle mission overall. One day after ...

That record belongs to John Glenn, who launched on the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998 at the age of 77. Astronaut Peggy Whitson became the oldest woman to orbit Earth in 2023 when she served as a ...

The space shuttle Discovery launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading through Atlantic skies toward its 51-D mission. The seven-member crew lifted off at 8:59 a.m. ET, April 12, ...

This research has been published in Science Advances. The discovery adds to a growing list of planets known to orbit binary star systems, reminiscent of the fictional desert planet Tatooine from ...

British researchers have found the "strongest evidence yet" of alien life beyond Earth with the discovery of an ocean ... of Cambridge using the James Webb Space Telescope. The exoplanet, a ...

The Curiosity rover's discovery changes all of that. Landing on Mars' Gale Crater in 2012, the rover has traversed 21 miles (34 kilometers) of the 96-mile-wide (154 km) meteor impact crater ...