The telescope will also be unable to observe objects closer than Mars, including Venus and the Moon. However, by taking this step now, the space agency believes it can extend Hubble's operational ...

After 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope is still churning out hits. In just the last year or so, scientists have used the school bus–sized observatory to confirm the first lone black hole ...

For the past decade, scientists have been trying to get to the bottom of what seemed like a major inconsistency in the ...

During its 35 years of orbiting the Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope has transmitted endless streams of magnificent images, confirmed the existence of "dark matter," and helped track a vagabond ...

A STS-125 crewmember aboard the space shuttle Atlantis captured this still image of the Hubble Space Telescope as the two spacecraft continued their relative separation on May 19, 2009 ...

So, with that preamble, let me tell you about the time astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to look at ... only been circumvented once to look at Venus! And even then the observations ...