A new bill, the Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act, aims to relocate the retired Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian ...

What caused NASA’s Columbia space shuttle to break apart during re-entry, killing all seven astronauts and changing ...

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Faint ...

In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the Hubble ...

NASA made history with the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-31. The launch marked a pivotal moment in space exploration, ushering in a new era of ...

Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope, tucked onboard the ...

From breathtaking snapshots of distant galaxies to game-changing discoveries about the universe’s expansion, the Hubble Space ...

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

NASA hasn't closed the door on the possibility — and the man in line to be the agency's next chief is a champion of the idea.

U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz want to relocate space shuttle Discovery to Houston. It will be more challenging than when the shuttle program ended.

The 17th launch of the space shuttle took place 40 years ago today, kicking off the Spacelab 3 mission (STS-51B). [...] ...

STS-31 was Discovery's 10th launch, and it was the 35th space shuttle mission overall ... making them some of the longest EVAs in shuttle history. During those extended stints navigating ...