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.
2024 was another busy year for space science, with many new missions, successes, and discoveries…
The European Space Agency (ESA) faces a crossroads as it works to prepare flights of…
Two days into their mission, the Polaris Dawn crew conducted the highlight of their mission…
On Friday, Aug. 15, 2024, SpaceX launched the Transporter-11 rideshare mission from Space Launch Complex…
Using the joint NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope in low-Earth orbit,…
The Hubble Space Telescope continues to operate to this day in part due to the…
Utilizing the infrared-sensitive instruments of the joint NASA, European Space Agency, and Canadian Space Agency…
Using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has detected atmospheric…
30 years ago, on the very early morning of Dec. 2, 1993, the Space Shuttle…
SpaceX launched its 45th mission of the year, carrying the Euclid telescope from the European…
Throughout the universe, supermassive black holes can typically be found at the center of massive…
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…
