Since the retirement of the Shuttle, visiting the telescope has proven essentially impossible. According to a 2019 study, the Hubble was meant to be retrieved by the Space Shuttle at the “end of its ...

Orbit decay accelerates as solar activity rises, with no approved mission yet to raise the telescope's altitude A newly released plot of the Hubble Space Telescope's altitude shows just how quickly ...

Drawing together leading experts from across the field, an international collaboration of cosmologists has created a unified approach for measuring the value of the Hubble constant. Published in ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is suddenly facing a much shorter future than many astronomers expected, with new modeling pointing to a serious risk that it could plunge back into the atmosphere around ...

It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's happening.

A bold new era in astronomy is on the horizon. By 2029, Schmidt Sciences, the philanthropic foundation founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Wendy Schmidt, plans to launch Lazuli, the ...

Hubble tension reveals discrepancies in cosmic expansion rates, leading to investigations of rotating universes and their ...

Edwin Hubble (November 20, 1889-September 28, 1953,) was an American astronomer who helped to establish the field of ...

How did a little girl born in India soon after its independence from the British Empire, become a program scientist for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, and the first female program scientist for the ...

Looking through the atmosphere is like looking through a piece of old stained glass. The glass has defects that distort the image. The atmosphere also has defects that distort the image, but the ...