The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was launched nearly five years ago, and the first images it revealed made waves across the astronomical world. Those images are still among the most relevant pictures ...

"...The Space Telescope History Project, a joint enterprise of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and the History of Science Department, the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This collection consists of the oral ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun If you’ve ever done any public outreach work for astronomy—if you’ve given open lectures ...