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 ...

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Prior to World War II the vast majority of telescopes built around the world were funded by wealthy people with an interest in the heavens above. However, after the war, two significant developments ...

Scientists analyzed more than 100 million image cutouts from a Hubble Space Telescope archive and found hundreds of ...

Since its launch in 1990, Hubble has transformed our understanding of the cosmos. The space telescope revealed a universe teeming with galaxies, stars, and planets instead of what we once saw as empty ...