NASA’s Swift space telescope is reaching the end of its two-decade run in orbit – unless a satellite launched on 3 July can ...

To celebrate the fourth birthday of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA has released a stunning image of the strangely ...

A three-armed spacecraft rocketed into orbit Friday to rescue a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth.

Without a rescue mission, NASA’s Swift Observatory, which studies some of the most powerful explosions in the universe, will ...

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory runs the risk of burning Earth's atmosphere as it sinks ...

The computer inside NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the most expensive science instrument ever launched, runs on a processor roughly as powerful as a mid-1990s iMac. That is not an oversight. It is ...

The Swift observatory has been in orbit for 22 years but it's on track to fall from the skies.

A private rocket mission aims to boost NASA’s Swift telescope before its orbit decays, extending its hunt for gamma-ray ...

Raytheon, RTX’s subsidiary, will build Lazuli’s 3.1m space telescope for 2028 delivery—boosting commercial space optics.

Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft is designed to capture and boost NASA's Swift observatory back to a safe altitude.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now aiming for an earlier launch in September 2026. Designed to explore dark matter, dark energy, and distant exoplanets, the telescope will capture massive ...

Imagine an enormous telescope with a sun shield the size of a tennis court that sends back proof of a lemon-shaped exoplanet raining diamonds. Then, picture a flying object that can hurtle toward the ...