On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

On the right is part of the first image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) Wide Field/Planetary Camera. It is shown with a ground-based picture from Las Campanas, Chile, Observatory ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

The story of the Hubble Space Telescope begins two decades before launch: NASA first began seriously considering the mission in 1970. Space-based astronomy existed, but observing from the ground ...

Hubble's first new photos show two colliding galaxies and one long galactic spiral. The telescope is also observing star clusters and Jupiter auroras.

Many of Hubble's most spectacular discoveries were unimagined when the telescope was launched on April 24, 1990, especially after engineers discovered its supposedly near-perfect 94.5-inch primary ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is a space icon known for remarkable astronomy images. But 25 years ago, ... The first photo from Hubble lacked the sharpnessthe world had hoped for.

The Hubble Space Telescope is functioning again after more than a month offline as a result of a problem with the payload computer on board. On Saturday, NASA said engineers had successfully ...

The Hubble telescope was designed to be the first space-based observatory, which could be serviced and upgraded while it remained in orbit. It was named after Edwin Hubble, ...

First conceived in 1946 by Yale astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer, Jr., the Hubble Space Telescope took several decades to come to fruition, Ellen Gutoskey reports for Mental Floss.