The largest map of the universe, created with data from the James Webb Space Telescope, shows almost 800,000 galaxies crammed ...

On 23 June 2025, the world will get a look at the first images from one of the most powerful telescopes ever built: the Vera ...

A dazzling cosmic swirl, NGC 3507 shines alone in this Hubble image, though it secretly belongs to a dynamic galactic duo.

Even as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captures headlines for its stunning early-universe observations, Hubble still provides critical ... despite aging components and the end of crewed ...

the space shuttle Atlantis launched on the fifth and final servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope. During mission STS-125, astronauts installed two new instruments on the telescope.

NASA therefore has a choice between building and launching a replacement optical space telescope or putting together another servicing mission to further extend Hubble’s life. About a year ago ...

Hubble has been operating ever since then without a servicing mission. But in the fullness of time, without another such mission, enough of its components will fail so as to make the space telescope ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA astronaut Mike Massimino smiles for a photo during STS-125 — the fifth and final ...

In celebration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope ... Thanks to a bunch of servicing missions over the years which upgraded the telescope’s instruments, it has continued to provide cutting ...

The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS ... who had already participated in three Hubble servicing missions — trained for two years to develop the tools, strategies and techniques ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the shuttle ... During a make-or-break December 1993 shuttle servicing mission, the new Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 and COSTAR were installed ...