This Hubble Space Telescope image captures the beauty of the moth-like planetary nebula NGC 2899 as part if its 35th anniversary celebrations in 2025. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, STScI) ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has reached a major milestone: one billion seconds in the final frontier. The famous observatory launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the space shuttle Discovery.

Here’s how it works. The Hubble Space Telescope being deployed April 25, 1990, from the space shuttle Discovery.(Image credit: NASA/Smithsonian Institution/Lockheed Corporation) ...

Hubble's longevity hasn't been easy. The telescope has weathered an array of technical problems over the years. NASA dispatched five space shuttle servicing missions to Hubble, with the last in 2009.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured several deep field images over the years in which multiple exposures of tiny, relatively empty patches of the sky were combined to reveal thousands of ...

For more than ten years, the Hubble Space Telescope has been helping scientists understand the variety of objects that make up the universe. NASA has plans to start launching its next generation ...

From local moons, to distant planets, to exploding stars, and far off galaxies, the world’s first and best-known space telescope has snapped images of them all, producing a voluminous gallery ...

The Hubble Space Telescope hasn’t always functioned flawlessly. A similar repair was performed in 2008, according to NASA, when another part of the SI C&DH unit failed.

In 1990, NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope. It had faced years of delays and cost overruns, but it proved the existence of black holes, calculated the age of the universe, and delivered ...

Hubble doesn’t just stare into deep space; the telescope is just as good at observing objects closer to home. Hubble has provided scientists with images of Pluto’s four moons and photographic ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a next-generation instrument designed to peer at the cosmos, with capabilities that both outstrip and complement the venerable Hubble telescope. It’s ...