Glitches have closed Hubble's supersharp eye from time to time over the past 30 years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For the ...

Thirty years ago Friday, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the shuttle Discovery with a famously flawed mirror, the opening chapter in an improbable saga of redemption and scientific ...

The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is running out of gyroscopes, and when none are left, the instrument will cease to conduct meaningful science. To preserve the telescope, which has been operating ...