When Space Shuttle Discovery touched down for the last time at Kennedy Space Center Runway 15 on March 9, 2011, it brought to an end a 27-year career of spaceflight.

Two students have engineered a fix to improve the imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope interferometer. They did this ...

A pair of Sydney Ph.D. students helped sharpen the view of humanity's most powerful space observatory—without leaving Earth.

The grandest of the great observatories -- Hubble Space Telescope -- Science instruments -- Hubble operations -- Deployment, STS-31R -- Servicing Mission 1 (SM1), STS ...

It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal ...

The County Council makes laws, appoints members of advisory committees and controls the purse through its budget authority.

This year, NASA is celebrating 35 years of incredible Hubble imagery and discoveries. The NASA and European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle ...

Two out-of-this-world guests are set to speak at the 10th Annual Hargrove Foundation Gala. According to a release from the Hargrove Foundation, Mike Massimino and Garrett Reisman from “Two Funny ...

NASA has awarded a contract to execute a high-stakes orbital maneuver, racing against time and atmospheric drag to prevent a critical science asset from tumbling back to Earth. The target of this ...

Texas lawmakers want to move the Smithsonian’s retired space shuttle to Houston. It’s “a vanity project that is apt to ...

Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto -like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque snack.