The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...

NASA has long captured the imagination of humanity with its ambitions. We reached the moon, built space stations, placed telescopes in orbit, and unlocked the secrets of the universe with NASA's ...

The shuttle Atlantis is about 8000 miles from the Hubble Space Telescope and closing for the rendezvous and capture tomorrow. Yesterday’s liftoff of the shuttle Atlantis did unusual damage to the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, one of the most productive scientific observatories ever launched, is in a gradual but inevitable downward spiral towards Earth due to atmospheric drag acting on its ...