30 years ago, on the very early morning of Dec. 2, 1993, the Space Shuttle Endeavour and the STS-61 crew launched on a high-stakes mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. 30 years after the successful flight, which enabled Hubble to finally fulfill its promise to revolutionize our view of the Universe, the veteran observatory is still making new discoveries and may get a new lease on life deeper into the 21st century.
In the morning hours of Sept. 24, a small capsule containing surface samples from asteroid…
The Soyuz MS-24 mission launched from Site 31/6 in Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, flying a crew…
Scientists, using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, have discovered a black hole that is continuously…
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, launched in September 2016, is now less than a month away from…
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander launched from the Second Launch Pad…
On July 12, 2022, five groups of scientists gathered in different agencies across the world…
SpaceX launched its 45th mission of the year, carrying the Euclid telescope from the European…
On Oct. 9, 2022, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, and Wind…
Using data collected by NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope and NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite…
Operations to support the upcoming first crew flights of Starliner and Orion are increasing around…
At the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) on Jan. 11, three teams…
The Artemis I mission, the first flight of the Orion spacecraft and SLS, is now…
A year after its launch, NASA’s Jupiter Trojan asteroid explorer Lucy has completed its first…
Using data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a group of NASA-funded researchers has discovered…
After successfully landing on Mars on August 6, 2012 (UTC), Curiosity continues to unlock the…
Recently analyzed data from an asteroid surface-sample collection performed by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed…
NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) have released the…
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on its way back to Earth after a multi-year, successful mission…
In early June, the main body of NASA’s upcoming Europa Clipper spacecraft completed construction and…
