The Hubble Space Telescope is a masterwork of engineering and human ingenuity. Hubble is comparable in size and weight to a large school bus, but its contributions to science and astronomy could ...

The Smithsonian Institution is fighting efforts by Texas lawmakers to relocate the retired space shuttle Discovery from ...

Explore the detailed process of getting the Space Shuttle into orbit around the Earth, primarily conducted at Kennedy Space ...

The nearly 900-page spending bill, dubbed by President Donald Trump as the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” includes a provision ...

Hubble was actually designed to be serviced by visiting astronauts in this way; three more missions tended to the space telescope between 1997 and 2002, but the Columbia space shuttle disaster a ...

NASA’s two most iconic space telescopes, the Hubble and James Webb, are facing the biggest operating cuts in their history.

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

Moving Discovery was the goal of legislation brought earlier this year by Texas Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, ...

On April 24, 1990, all 24,000 pounds of the Hubble Space Telescope were tucked away inside the Discovery space shuttle when it launched into space. Thirty-five years later, NASA says Hubble has ...

A late move to transfer the space shuttle Discovery from Virginia to Houston was blocked, at least for now, on a Senate ...

WASHINGTON — The Hubble Space Telescope marked its 35th anniversary this week and NASA celebrated by releasing a series of stunning new photos from the observatory. With nearly 1.7 million ...

NASA is marking the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's launch with fresh photos taken by the observatory. “Hubble opened a new window to the universe when it launched 35 years ago.