Science news articles about 'space telescopes'

NASA has delayed the final shuttle flight to overhaul the Hubble Space Telescope.

A set of 29 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images of an exotic type of active galaxy known as a "post-starburst quasar" show that interactions and mergers drive both galaxy ...

A Nasa space telescope is about to launch on a mission to explore the Universe with "gamma-ray glasses".

The full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope resumes its world tour with a stop in ... display July 13 - 20 in conjunction with the 37th Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Scientific Assembly.

The Hubble Space Telescope has made its 100,000th orbit, nearly two decades after it launched into space.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 25 (UPI) -- A new image from the U.S. space agency's Spitzer Space Telescope was released Monday as part of the telescope's fifth anniversary celebration.

The model of the James Webb Space Telescope has been making a lot of "orbits" around the world, and is now slated to "land" at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany from October 13-28, 2008.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA will attempt on Wednesday to revive the $2 billion Hubble Space Telescope, which was idled two weeks ago by an equipment failure, officials said on Tuesday.

... data as early as Saturday. The ailing Hubble Space Telescope could be snapping pictures of the heavens again ...

... Grumman, the main contractor on the James Webb Space Telescope. The program's purpose was to show that the membrane ... Dayton Research Institute and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center's Solar Wind Facility ...

... . They don't exist, but Northrop Grumman engineers have created a sunshield for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope that can withstand all of those elements. The space telescope needs a sunshield to ...

A tennis-court-sized sun shield will keep the James Webb Space telescope chilled to perfection in space.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Dec. 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says the first of 18 mirror segments of its James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at the Marshall Space Flight Center.

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 12 new gamma-ray-only pulsars and has detected gamma-ray pulses from 18 others. The finds are transforming our ...

NASA's Ares V moon rocket could launch giant space telescopes in the future.