Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope, tucked onboard the space shuttle Discovery, blasted off Earth into history. Within a month ...

Hubble Space Telescope's 35th anniversary: See NASA's new out-of-this-world images The Hubble Space Telescope, launched 35 years ago, has blown our minds with its striking images of far-away ...

April 24th, 1990: the Hubble Space Telescope ushers in a new era of space science. 35 years later, it’s taken nearly 1.7 million observations, or an average of about 130 per day.

Every Hubble anniversary feels like a triumph for the elderly space telescope. It may have a few more anniversaries left in it. NASA hopes it will continue operations into the 2030s. Long live Hubble.

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

With its origins tracing back to the 1970s, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. The space telescope is in a low Earth orbit, about 340 ...

Hubble's new image of the Sombrero Galaxy, Messier 104. ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll. Messier 104 was discovered back in 1781 by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain—and has since been the ...

Hubble Space Telescope's 35th anniversary: See NASA's new out-of-this-world images The Hubble Space Telescope, launched 35 years ago, has blown our minds with its striking images of far-away ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, launched 35 years ago, has blown our minds with its striking images of far-away galaxies, black holes and planets including Jupiter and Mars. Mike Snider.