Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Hubble and its fellow observatories give us ... The telescope's original October 1986 launch was scrapped after the loss of the space shuttle Challenger. When the telescope finally became ...

Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) for over nine months, have ...

Issues with Hubble's gyroscope have nagged the telescope ... Six new gyros were installed in 2009 during the fifth and final space shuttle servicing mission. NASA's shuttle program was retired ...

NASA's newest space shuttle, Atlantis, made its public debut during a rollout ceremony at the Rockwell International ...

NASA's most remarkable achievements include launching Explorer 1 in 1958, the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, and the Hubble Space Telescope's universe r ...

There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...

Supernovae play a vital role in spreading heavy elements around interstellar space, which in turn sparks ... a supernova but leaves the star intact. Hubble is now looking for the surviving star ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, which is located about 160,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud ...

With two powerful new instruments, added to Hubble in February 1997 by the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery, we can literally peer light years beyond what was possible before. Our deepest look ...