For years now, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has had its fair share of brushes with death. The groundbreaking observatory launched into low-Earth orbit 36 years ago, and it’s ...

Orbit decay accelerates as solar activity rises, with no approved mission yet to raise the telescope's altitude A newly released plot of the Hubble Space Telescope's altitude shows just how quickly ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been orbiting Earth for over 35 years now. Billions of miles away, floating above our heads, it has completely changed .

Edwin Hubble (November 20, 1889-September 28, 1953,) was an American astronomer who helped to establish the field of ...

It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's happening.

Drawing together leading experts from across the field, an international collaboration of cosmologists has created a unified approach for measuring the value of the Hubble constant. Published in ...

NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope have recently released a breathtaking new image of NGC 2835, a spiral galaxy located 35 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. This latest photo, ...

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The San Antonio Astronomical Association invites you to participate in all of its public astronomy events. It's free; and you can view the calendar at www.sanantonioastronomy.org International Space ...

On April 24, 1990, humanity launched a scientific revolution. I mean “launched” literally: on that date the space shuttle Discovery roared into the sky with the Hubble Space Telescope nestled in its ...