The Hubble Space Telescope has watched planets, galaxies, stars and suns for the past 17 years. But as people looked for stars in this week?s mostly cloudy skies in vain, the telescope?s main camera ?

WASHINGTON — Space shuttle Atlantis is now in a rough orbital neighborhood — a place littered with thousands of pieces of space junk zipping around the Earth at nearly 20,000 mph. There are more ...

— -- A hardware failure means the planned October launch of a space shuttle to fix NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will be delayed until mid-February, the space agency said Monday. Failure of ...

Hubble and Atlantis are flying in a 350-mile-high orbit littered with space junk. And some of that debris put a bit of scare into NASA late Wednesday afternoon, but did not hit the shuttle. The Air ...

Without question, the Hubble Space Telescope is a marvel of technology. NASA and the scientific community recently celebrated the Hubble’s 35th anniversary, as well they should, considering the ...

NASA will send a space shuttle and seven astronauts to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope as soon as May 2008, overturning an earlier decision that the complex mission posed too much of a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Spacewalking astronauts gave the Hubble Space Telescope a better view of the cosmos by installing a new high-tech instrument Saturday, then began their toughest job yet: ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Spacewalking astronauts ventured out Monday to finish repairs on the Hubble Space Telescope, which will never be touched by human hands again. It was the fifth and final ...

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Spacewalking astronauts completed repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope on Monday, leaving it more powerful than ever and able to peer even deeper into the cosmos - almost to the brink of creation.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Atlantis' astronauts grabbed the Hubble Space Telescope on Wednesday, then quickly set their sights on the difficult, dangerous and unprecedented spacewalking repairs they will ...

Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore are ecstatic that Hubble will be repaired. “We are quite happy we?ll be able to get two new science instruments aboard the Hubble,” ...