They also tested the Canadarm on a dummy second payload. Shuttle fleet's Spacelab ... a pioneering science laboratory housed in the shuttle's cargo bay. During this 10-day mission, the six-person ...

payload bay, is an option not just for launching the rocket, but also as a way to return to the observatory in space for periodic servicing, just as NASA space shuttle astronauts did with Hubble ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture an incredible image of a galaxy that looks an awful lot like a bullseye. "This was a serendipitous discovery," said Imad Pasha, the lead researcher ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Proposed budget reductions for the Hubble Space Telescope would impact research and outreach as well as increase the risk to the observatory, project officials warn.

They could then deploy a small “pickoff” reflector (a bit like a submarine’s periscope or a dentist’s mirror) out the instrument bay on the side of Hubble’s back half to catch the ...

The water ripples out from where the bird breaks the surface. The Hubble Space Telescope is helping scientists unravel the history of the two galaxies and the results of their cosmic meetup.

High-resolution imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirmed eight rings, and data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii confirmed a ninth. Hubble and Keck also confirmed which ...

This is the story for a system that once contained three co-orbiting stars. Forensics with Hubble data show that the stars have had a tumultuous life. Two of the stars merged about 500 million ...

In commemoration of Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable class star, called V1, in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy 100 years ago, astronomers partnered with the American Association of ...

Williams (University of Washington) The universe is an unfathomably big place, but even after decades of service, the Hubble Space Telescope can see a lot of it. It's also great for things that ...

Hubble's sharp imaging capabilities can resolve more than 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy, detecting only stars brighter than our Sun. They look like grains of sand across the beach. But ...