Composed of gas and dust, the pictured pillar resides in a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina. It was captured ...

NASA engineers are investigating after the primary cameras of the Hubble Space Telescope stopped functioning over the weekend. The backup power feed for the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) failed on ...

One of the main cameras on the ageing Hubble Space Telescope, which is known for its unparalleled views of distant galaxies and infant stars, has stopped working. The Space Telescope Science Institute ...

NASA managers will host a media teleconference at 9 a.m., EDT Friday, June 30, to discuss the results of Thursday’s technical review. The purpose of the review was to discuss plans for restoring the ...

First motion is almost always a big event in the world of space exploration. Whether the first motion is of a wheel beginning to rotate or a rocket lifting off the pad, first motion means things are ...

The main camera on the Hubble space telescope has stopped working again. United States space agency NASA says only a third of its capabilities are ever likely to be restored. The instrument is widely ...

HOUSTON—Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope’s (HST) Wide Field Camera 3—the orbiting observatory’s multispectral, primary deep field imager—have been suspended due to a hardware issue that ...