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The staff changes tap into a deep well of talent and experience across JPL as the laboratory looks to the future.

Launched with faulty vision, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA were a laughing stock – until seven astronauts performed a series of daring spacewalks to fix it.

Launched with faulty vision, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA were a laughing stock – until seven astronauts performed a series of daring spacewalks to fix it.

The Hubble Space Telescope had to be repaired in space 5 times — a luxury not afforded to the new James Webb Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope has a problem with its hardware and is currently in safe mode, with science operations paused until the fault can be corrected.

In the pre-dawn hours on Dec. 2, 1993, the space shuttle Endeavour launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a critical mission to repair NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble was designed to be serviced in space with components that astronauts can slide in and out of place. But prior to launch, no one expected […]

This huge, ancient galaxy is the last object of its type found by Charles Messier. It's also an oddball, almost perfectly round.

“That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, ‘This is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there.’” -Story Musgrave

Found at the heart of large, ancient galaxies, quasars are supermassive black holes that are so luminous they outshine the sun by as much as 27 trillion times.

Plus, Hubble turns 33, new research on the ISS, and how to gather resources to start a lunar colony.