The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most famous scientific instruments that has ever existed. It’s given the world an ...

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 ...

Spacewalking astronauts repaired and upgraded the famed Hubble Telescope during five missions from 1993 to 2009. Here's a summary of these epic servicing efforts.

NASA estimates that the Hubble Space Telescope has about 10 years of useful life before it burns up in an uncontrolled reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere.

Plans to repair Hubble were scuttled after the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its seven astronauts in 2003. NASA re-approved the plans in 2006.

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 ...

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 ...

Despite a problem with the Space Shuttle's cooling system, repairs on the Hubble telescope will go forward this weekend. Host Korva Coleman talks with NPR Science correspondent Richard Harris ...

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 ...

Since its famously flawed optics were corrected in 1993, the Hubble Space Telescope has become an icon of American science, one of the most productive astronomical instruments ever built and the ...

NASA said on Tuesday it would undertake a potentially risky shuttle mission to extend the life of the Hubble Space Telescope until at least 2013.

Two spacewalking astronauts on Saturday tackled one of their toughest repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope -- a meticulous fix of a broken camera -- and installed a new spectrograph that can ...