Often bucking tradition, these women sought knowledge of the universe and reimagined the way we view the cosmos.

NASA estimates that the Hubble Space Telescope has about 10 years of useful life before it burns up in an uncontrolled ...

From breathtaking snapshots of distant galaxies to game-changing discoveries about the universe’s expansion, the Hubble Space ...

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

Beneath a breathtaking full Moon, construction on the world’s largest optical and infrared telescope—the ELT—progresses in ...

The multidisciplinary study of the transmission of light through the ocean, including the development and use of novel imaging technologies. Research interests are broadly concerned with the use of ...

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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, a NASA and ESA project, was launched on April 24, 1990, aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. The mission took place a few short years after the Challenger disaster, which blew a ...

"Knock on wood, it can go another 10 years," former astronaut John Grunsfeld says. John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf. It's right next to a model of a NASA ...

and astronauts came to the rescue on the first of five space shuttle servicing missions in December 1993 to improve Hubble’s vision with corrective optics. You can read about the challenges ...