Winds exceeding 110 mph that tore across the top of Mount Hamilton early Christmas morning blasted a massive steel protective ...

It was touted as Florida's largest research telescope when it was installed just 17 years ago. But now, the Florida Institute of Technology's aging showcase telescope has been rendered sightless for ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is a masterwork of engineering and human ingenuity. Hubble is comparable in size and weight to a large school bus, but its contributions to science and astronomy could fill ...

Western Nevada College Jack C. Davis Observatory’s C400 Takahashi telescope can still look exceptionally long toward the stars from Carson City. Only a broken mount keeps it from doing what it was ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - For the second time this year, Cincinnati Recycling and Reuse Hub and Astronomer Dean Regas have collaborated to keep telescopes from entering landfills. Astronomy expert Dean ...

CHARLESTON — To keep the world’s largest fully steerable telescope fully steerable, the National Science Foundation is investing $5.3 million over the next four years to replace a network of 48 steel ...

GREENBELT, Maryland (Reuters) - NASA said on Tuesday it would undertake a potentially risky shuttle mission to extend the life of the Hubble Space Telescope until at least 2013. Sign up here. NASA ...

Image: Equipment used to repair the South Pole Telescope is removed from the facility. Repairs to the telescope’s azimuth will allow the instrument to turn smoothly as it searches the universe for ...

NASA is preparing to send astronauts on a spacewalk to repair a telescope mounted on the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS). The repair involves installing patches to eliminate unwanted ...

Lowell Observatory, Arizona's oldest center for astronomy, is launching a campaign to recruit an army of benefactors to repair the telescope and dome from which Percival Lowell discovered what he said ...

Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore are ecstatic that Hubble will be repaired. “We are quite happy we?ll be able to get two new science instruments aboard the Hubble,” ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Hubble Space Telescope is working again, taking stunning cosmic photos after a breakdown a month ago. But NASA offered some bad news Thursday about longer-term repairs for the ...