This week marks 35 years since Hubble first left Earth aboard the space shuttleDiscovery. Instead of receiving birthday ...

Hubble and JWST Join Forces to Create Most Colorful View of the Cosmos Ever See What the Hubble Space Telescope Saw on Your ...

Note: This list is compiled using data from Wired. During NASA’s STS-121 mission on the space shuttle Discovery, astronaut Piers Sellers was testing ways to fix heat shields in space.

A NASA rover taking rock samples on Mars has uncovered a plentiful mineral that was invisible to orbiters studying the Red ...

That record belongs to John Glenn, who launched on the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998 at the age of 77. Astronaut Peggy Whitson became the oldest woman to orbit Earth in 2023 when she served as a ...

To mark the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, Space.com looks at some of the most scientifically significant images that have emerged from the observatory's lens.

aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. With a diameter of “only” 94 inches, it’s hardly the largest telescope around. What makes it special is that it observes the universe from above the Earth ...