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

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 ...

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 ...

This video details the lengthy process of getting the Space Shuttle into orbit, primarily at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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 ...

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

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

Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious ...

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 ...

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 ...