The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

A lonely black hole roaming the cosmos in solitude has been confirmed for the first time. A closer look has revealed the dark ...

Then, due to the loss of Challenger in January 1986 and the ensuing pause of the space shuttle program, Hubble would wait yet another five years before reaching orbit. Loren J. Shriver ...

April 22, 2025 -- The Santa Monica College Planetarium next month will will eplore radio astronoomy and look back at the history of the Hubble Space Telescope that has been circling Earth for 35 years ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of the Curiosity rover driving through the Gale Crater. The spacecraft ...

The Curiosity rover is heading to a region containing formations that were possibly made by groundwater billions of years ago ...

The new Hubble image is part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations. ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll The gorgeous Eagle Nebula is one of the most iconic objects in the cosmos, known ...

One reason Hubble was placed into Earth orbit, instead of a more stable orbit, was so shuttle astronauts could do servicing missions to update equipment, and make necessary repairs. NASA got busy ...

When I was in grade school I was fascinated by the world’s largest telescope: the 200-inch-diameter Hale Reflector on Palomar Mountain near San Diego.

As the Hubble Space Telescope approaches 35 years since its launch, marking over three decades of incredible images of the universe and science, NASA and its partner, the European Space Agency, are ...

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