On April 24, 1990, all 24,000 pounds of the Hubble Space Telescope were tucked away inside the Discovery space shuttle when it launched into space. Thirty-five years later, NASA says Hubble has proven ...

WASHINGTON — The Hubble Space Telescope marked its 35th anniversary this week and NASA celebrated by releasing a series of stunning new photos from the observatory. With nearly 1.7 million ...

One shows the stellar nursery Carina Nebula, about 7,500 light years away. A light year is nearly 6 trillion miles. The photo shows an eerie backlit reddish cloud being bombarded by radiation. When ...

WASHINGTON (AP) ó A refurbished Hubble Space Telescope is showing Earth the sharpest photos yet of cosmic beauty, complete with heavenly glows. NASA on Wednesday unveiled the first deep space photos ...

Since the early 1990s, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured breathtaking images of tens of thousands of celestial objects, inspiring a generation of professional scientists and amateur astronomers.