Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Without question, the Hubble Space Telescope is a marvel of technology. NASA and the scientific community recently celebrated the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has watched planets, galaxies, stars and suns for the past 17 years. But as people looked for stars in this week?s mostly cloudy skies in vain, the telescope?s main camera ?

Astronauts are risking their lives, fixing the Hubble telescope right now. It’s attached to the bay of the Atlantis, all big and shiny. You can see them working ...

When astronauts embarked on the latest mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, Bal Seal Engineering’s canted-coil(TM) springs went along for the ride in a set of special tools designed to make ...

HOUSTON – Spacewalkers’ specially designed tools couldn’t dislodge a balky bolt interfering with repairs Sunday at the Hubble Space Telescope. So they took an approach more familiar to people ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Atlantis' astronauts grabbed the Hubble Space Telescope on Wednesday, then quickly set their sights on the difficult, dangerous and unprecedented spacewalking repairs they will ...

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Space Shuttle Atlantis has been scheduled for an August mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. These fresh parts should extend Hubble's useful life into 2013. The new instruments ...

Spacewalking astronauts completed repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope on Monday, leaving it more powerful than ever and able to peer even deeper into the cosmos - almost to the brink of creation.