Articles by John Johnson Jr.

It was a good news, bad news day for NASA on Thursday as space agency managers announced that they had successfully restarted the broken Hubble Space Telescope, but acknowledged that they won’t be ready to send a repair team to the 18-year-old instrument until May at the earliest. Read more

NASA rolled out its next-generation space capsule here Wednesday, revealing a bulbous module that is scheduled to carry humans back to the moon in 2020 and eventually onward to Mars. Read more

The ailing Hubble Space Telescope could be snapping pictures of the heavens again as early as Saturday after engineers fixed one of the problems that has largely shut down the instrument for the last three weeks. Read more

It’s fair to say that Dan Long has seen more of the universe than anyone but God. Read more

NASA engineers will begin trying Wednesday to bring the out-of-commission Hubble Space Telescope back on line by switching to a backup system on a piece of equipment that relays science data from the telescope to Earth. Read more

Scientists for the first time were able predict the arrival of an asteroid before it entered Earth’s atmosphere. Read more

The latest forecast on Mars calls for morning fog and swift-moving clouds – along with light snow. Read more

An instrument that stores and transmits science data back to Earth has broken down on the Hubble Space Telescope, forcing NASA on Monday to postpone a long-scheduled repair mission to the ailing, 18-year-old telescope. Read more

Four years into its mission to explore the surface of Mars, one of NASA’s twin rovers, Opportunity, is about to set out on a do-or-die trek to a giant crater about seven miles away. Read more