As the Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 35 years in space, here's what to know about the ambitious instrument.

Texas, filed a bill this week to prepare NASA's Johnson Space Center as mission control for future Mars missions. Why it ...

STS-31 was Discovery's 10th launch, and it was the 35th space shuttle mission overall. One day after reaching orbit (April 25), the STS-31 crew deployed Hubble, and then spent most of the duration ...

Shenzhou 20 is the ninth astronaut mission to reach Tiangong, a T-shaped outpost that's about 20% as massive as the International Space Station. China finished assembling the three-module Tiangong in ...

de Groh was fortunate enough to have worked in different capacities on all five of the Space Shuttle Hubble Space Telescope service missions.

Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope, tucked onboard the space shuttle Discovery ... had truly begun its mission, gazing out ...

In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the Hubble Space Telescope 's research program, was paid two visits by the renowned ...

Credit: US Mint NASA relied on the Space Shuttle to transport astronauts on missions from April 1981 until its retirement in July 2011. The spacecraft blasted off a total of 135 times from one of ...

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope being launched into orbit by the space shuttle Discovery, ...