Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Faint ...

Terry Virts, 57, a former US Air Force Top Gun pilot who has spent 213 days in space, has accused Russian cosmonauts of ...

On May 16, 2011, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on its 25th and final flight. This was also the penultimate mission of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 35th anniversary in space today, but even as a senior citizen in the spacecraft ...

After a series of weather-related delays in April, NASA’s Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A, beginning a 10-day mission focused on bolstering the ...

Ever wonder why space launch vehicles are called rockets? Learn the origin of the term and how it came to define modern space ...

Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope, tucked onboard the space shuttle Discovery, blasted off Earth into history. Within a month ...

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space in 1972 on a quest to reach Venus, but its journey was scuttled by an apparent engine ...

As an aerospace engineering professor, I study how drag affects the movement of spacecraft in orbit. Aerobraking, as the name suggests, is a type of maneuver that uses the thin air in space to ...

"I love being in space," he said. "When you're sleeping, you're just floating, and your body, all those little aches and ...

The details in this photograph include the airglow of the atmosphere dividing Earth from space — yellow-green at an altitude of 75 miles and a faint reddish hue 250 miles above ...