Without question, the Hubble Space Telescope is a marvel of technology. NASA and the scientific community recently celebrated the Hubble’s 35th anniversary, as well they should, considering the ...

The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is running out of gyroscopes, and when none are left, the instrument will cease to conduct meaningful science. To preserve the telescope, which has been operating ...

Hubble has run into more trouble. The space telescope slipped into a hibernating state more than a week ago when one of its three remaining gyroscopes — part of the pointing system — malfunctioned.

The Hubble Space Telescope is suffering the kinds of aches and pains that can come with being old, and NASA officials say they're shifting into a new way of pointing the telescope in order to work ...

Trouble with one of the Hubble Space Telescope's three remaining gyroscopes, critical for aiming and locking onto targets, has prompted mission managers to switch to a backup control mode that will ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is still going strong thanks to an amazing design, operations and science team — and a cadre of spacewalking astronauts. Hubble launched to Earth orbit 35 years ago today ...

Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has been one of the most valuable tools in astronomy, contributing to findings about everything from far-off exoplanets to the expansion of the ...

NASA announced Thursday that its Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has calibrated more than 40 "milepost markers" of space and time. The mile markers help scientists measure the expansion rate of the ...

The Hubble telescope just made its best measurement yet of the universe's current expansion rate, but it still doesn't match the early universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...