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  Planets being born in knots of dust. An unknown energy propelling the expansion of the universe. Shattered comets and misshapen asteroids. Galaxies that crash together to remake themselves. Faint, distant glimpses of light from the universe’s most distant collections of stars. For more than 25 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has brought the wonder, beauty and mysteries of the universe to Earth, spinning pictures out of light that have transformed our understanding of the universe.  With over 1.5 million observations and counting, Hubble continues to trek above Earth’s surface, free of the light-distorting and blocking effects of our planet’s atmosphere, beaming home data that reveals the answers to some of our most critical questions about the cosmos. Why a Space Telescope? Hubble was designed as a general purpose observatory, meant to explore the universe in visible, ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths. To date, the telescope has studied more than 40,000 c...

  As NASA evolves its blueprint for shaping exploration throughout the solar system, the agency is detailing its process to develop a sustainable, resilient path forward for exploration. In a  published Wednesday, the agency explains its methodology behind developing NASA’s Moon to Mars Objectives that drive its architecture, plans, and efforts to enable long-term human presence and exploration throughout the solar system. NASA’s Moon to Mars Strategy and Objectives Development  provides insight into how NASA developed and refined its Moon to Mars Objectives, and describes how the agency is establishing an objectives-driven architectural review process to ensure efforts to develop, build, and achieve exploration activities at the Moon and Mars are resilient for decades to come. NASA’s overall Moon to Mars strategy seeks to develop a roadmap with input from a wide variety of U.S. and global stakeholders to define overarching exploration goals to enable the a...