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 ...

The bright reflection is from the end of the canister holding the folded solar array that astronauts Linnehan and John M.

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 ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

High-resolution imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirmed eight rings, and data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii confirmed a ninth. Hubble and Keck also confirmed which ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture an incredible image of a galaxy that looks an awful lot like a bullseye.

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where planets formed in the early universe.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture an incredible image of a galaxy that looks an awful lot like a bullseye. "This was a ...