NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has broken down yet ... According to the space agency, one of the telescope's three gyroscopes, which help the telescope turn and ensure it's pointing in the right ...

Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

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NASA, the European Space Agency, and other Hubble partners got a sobering reminder of this fact last week, when a vital part called a gyroscope failed. Hubble's gyros help tell the telescope that ...

Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex ...

Manned maintenance missions, such as this one in 1999 to replace gyroscopes ... mists in an orbit 375 miles above Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope peers through the very mists of time.

the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope. The venerable old space telescope was launched on April 24, 1990, so now is the perfect time to celebrate this beloved instrument and the ...

"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ultraviolet light." ...

The SMC is close to the bigger Large Magellanic Cloud and is best seen from November to January — unless you're the Hubble Space Telescope, which recently zoomed in on the SMC to reveal its ...

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex atmospheric changes on Uranus that are largely driven by the effects of the sun's ...