CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Spacewalking astronauts gave the Hubble Space Telescope a more commanding view of the cosmos by installing a new high-tech instrument Saturday, then pulled off their toughest ...

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First motion is almost always a big event in the world of space exploration. Whether the first motion is of a wheel beginning to rotate or a rocket lifting off the pad, first motion means things are ...

Jubilant astronomers today unveiled humankind’s most spectacular views of the universe, as captured by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope’s new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). They also reported that ...

Galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391 is on display in this new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The merger is about 670 million light-years away from Earth ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A pair of spacewalking astronauts overpowered a stubborn bolt and successfully installed a new piano-sized camera in the Hubble Space Telescope on Thursday, the first step to ...

Hubble launched in 1990 with five primary instruments designed to capture images from space and transmit them back to Earth. 1. Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC) This instrument was composed of ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the planetary nebula Kohoutek 4-55. ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll When a star comes to the end of its life and dies, it can be an epic and destructive ...

Engineers are troubleshooting a second failure of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope, after an apparent electrical short tripped a fuse in the backup power-feed, but ...

Star clusters are among the many objects observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. These gravitationally bound groups of stars often form from the same molecular cloud and come in various types. These ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is back to full operations after spending several weeks in safe mode due to a problem with one of its components. The telescope first experienced issues with one of its ...