CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — 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.

It’s as long as a school bus and weighs as much as two elephants. Hurtling through space at a rate of 5 miles per second, the Hubble Space Telescope is quietly doing its solitary work 330 miles above Earth’s surface, even as the space shuttles that keep it in working order pass into retirement.

PITTSBURGH - The heavens are only a few mouse clicks away with Google Inc.'s latest free tool. A new feature in Google Earth, the company's satellite imagery-based mapping software, allows users to view the sky from their computers.

June 1, 2004

WASHINGTON — A refurbished Hubble Space Telescope is showing Earth the sharpest photos yet of cosmic beauty, complete with heavenly glows.

December 8, 2004

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - Space shuttle Atlantis brought its crew of seven astronauts safely back to Earth on Sunday after thunderstorms in Florida forced a detour to sunsplashed California, ending a 13-day mission that repaired and enhanced the Hubble Space Telescope.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Atlantis and a crew of seven thundered away Monday on one last flight to the Hubble Space Telescope, setting off on a daring repair mission that NASA hopes will lift the celebrated observatory to new scientific heights.

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 puttering around down on Earth: use brute force.

The people of 16th-century Poland and 17thcentury Italy and Germany were likely oblivious to the fact that Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler were dramatically reshaping mankind’s understanding of the universe.

BALTIMORE - Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute released the deepest-ever view of the universe Tuesday, a long-duration exposure that reached out to a point just a few hundred million years from the Big Bang.

His work as an environmental engineering consultant takes Scottsdale resident John Reiss Jr. around the world, to Southeast Asia, Africa, Russia and South America.

Arizona State University scientists are set to be thrust further into the forefront of space exploration.