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 fill ...

Without question, the Hubble Space Telescope is a marvel of technology. NASA and the scientific community recently celebrated the Hubble’s 35th anniversary, as well they should, considering the ...

NASA cited a number of risks as to why SpaceX wouldn’t be allowed to visit the 34-year-old telescope. Hubble has seen better days—and with NASA formally rejecting SpaceX’s commercial repair offer, ...

WASHINGTON — Using the power of pictures, the Hubble Space Telescope has snapped away at the mystery of the universe. For 19 years, Hubble has shown the epic violence of crashing galaxies, spied on ...

When astronauts embarked on the latest mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, Bal Seal Engineering’s canted-coil(TM) springs went along for the ride in a set of special tools designed to make ...

NASA will send a space shuttle and seven astronauts to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope as soon as May 2008, overturning an earlier decision that the complex mission posed too much of a ...

University of Arizona Steward Observatory astronomers are delighted with the decision. Those available today to talk about it include: • Professor Rodger I. Thompson, principal investigator for the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA will send a space shuttle to repair the 16-year-old Hubble Space Telescope, agency Administrator Michael Griffin announced Tuesday, reversing his predecessor's decision to ...

— -- A hardware failure means the planned October launch of a space shuttle to fix NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will be delayed until mid-February, the space agency said Monday. Failure of ...

"Knock on wood, it can go another 10 years," former astronaut John Grunsfeld says. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. John Grunsfeld ...

GREENBELT, Maryland (Reuters) - NASA said on Tuesday it would undertake a potentially risky shuttle mission to extend the life of the Hubble Space Telescope until at least 2013. Sign up here. NASA ...

HOUSTON -- The shuttle that will carry astronauts into space next month to repair the Hubble Space Telescope faces a greater risk than usual of a catastrophic collision with space debris, NASA ...