CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — With a forecast of near-perfect weather, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope scientists and managers were euphoric as they awaited today’s planned launch of shuttle Atlantis on the ...

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Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's final visit to the Hubble Space Telescope has been delayed at least a month, until the fall, because of extra time needed to build the shuttle fuel tanks needed for the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For what is expected to be the last time, both of NASA's shuttle launch pads are occupied. Atlantis is on one, primed for a flight this week to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope combine to reveal an otherworldly view of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Atlantis and a crew of seven thundered away Monday on one last flight to the Hubble Space Telescope, setting off on a daring repair mission that NASA hopes will ...

GREENBELT, Md. -- The astronauts who will make the next space shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope say safety upgrades at NASA will make their flight safer but their job harder. Since ...

In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s launch into orbit, astronomers aimed the legendary telescope at a selection of photogenic space targets, stretching from inside ...

"Knock on wood, it can go another 10 years," former astronaut John Grunsfeld says. John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf. It's right next to a model of a NASA space ...

HOUSTON -- The shuttle that will carry astronauts into space next month to repair the Hubble Space Telescope faces a greater risk than usual of a catastrophic collision with space debris, NASA ...