Mars has received considerable attention in the past few decades, thanks to the many robotic missions exploring it to learn ...

Dozens of NASA's missions to explore the cosmos could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.

Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have provided new clues about how the exoplanet WASP-121b has formed ...

Scientists have long puzzled over a discrepancy in how fast the universe is expanding, but new, sharper data from the James ...

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

As the Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 35 years in space, here's what to know about the ambitious instrument.

On May 11, 2009, 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 ...

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 ...