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Two more of NASA's space telescopes got another look at comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar interloper that captured the world's ...
New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...
As a result, a daring rescue mission was planned. Astronauts rode to Hubble in orbit aboard the space shuttle Endeavour and installed corrective optics in 1993, restoring the telescope's vision.
The Hubble Space Telescope is seen being released into Earth orbit by the STS-31 crew aboard space shuttle Discovery in April 1990.
"This discovery was partly serendipity! But, we believe there are many more such opportunities hidden in Hubble data." ...
This wide separation made it enormously challenging to determine the 15,000-year-long orbit in such a relatively short time span of Hubble observations.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- One of NASA's crowning glories, the Hubble Space Telescope, marks its 25th anniversary this week. With 1 million-plus observations, including those of some of the farthest ...
In celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 years in Earth orbit, NASA is releasing an assortment of compelling images recently taken by Hubble, stretching from the planet Mars to ...
It's not quite the achievement of a lunar landing, but astronaut Mike Massimino made Twitter history with a 139-character post to the micro-blogging site -- the first person to do so from space. "From ...
The discovery expands Uranus’s known family of satellites to 29, with the tiny moon measuring just 6 miles across.
NASA has released a gallery of fascinating images captured by the Hubble Space telescope from its home at 320 miles above the Earth's surface.
Space shuttle astronauts plucked the Hubble Space Telescope from orbit on Wednesday and anchored the observatory in their ship's cargo bay for a long-overdue overhaul.