Twenty-five years ago today, arguably the most important Space Shuttle mission of the 1990s landed back at the Kennedy Space Center, concluding a daring, complex, and high-stakes rescue mission to save the Hubble Space Telescope.
The mission was also largely symbolic of what NASA can accomplish and served as a restoration of the public’s confidence in the space agency following a series of missteps in the first three years of the new decade.
Of the trillions of stars scattered throughout the universe, one of the most common are…
Using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and retired Spitzer Space Telescope, a group of…
China launched its second space station module of the year aboard a Chang Zheng 5B…
A year after its launch, NASA’s Jupiter Trojan asteroid explorer Lucy has completed its first…
In a recently released study, data from the joint NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) Hubble Space…
NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) have released the…
A team of researchers using archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope, a joint venture between…
In recent weeks, two teams of researchers released studies identifying the strange characteristics of an…
With the James Webb Space Telescope continuing its commissioning phase, NASA is already looking ahead…
It is a mission more than 25 years in the making. The revolutionary JWST (James…
When the joint NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope launches atop an Ariane 5 rocket this…
Thirty-one years after its launch, and 12 years after its most-recent servicing mission, the NASA/…
SpaceX has successfully launched the first-ever all-private orbital mission, Inspiration4. The first-of-its-kind flight saw four…
NASA teams have successfully resurrected the iconic Hubble Space Telescope after it first experienced problems…
Following an unexpected payload computer halt on June 13, Hubble teams are diligently working to…
The first crewed mission to the new Chinese Space Station has successfully launched. Shenzhou-12, carrying…
In 2018, the exo-planet PDS 70b was observed using the Very Large Array. It’s discovery…
The Hubble Space Telescope recently garnered headlines for a software anomaly that caused the iconic…
The Hubble Space Telescope has successfully measured the highly eccentric and distant orbit of an…
