The LINK spacecraft is designed to rendezvous with Swift and nudge the spacecraft to a more stable orbit. In doing so, NASA is hoping to avoid Swift being dragged down low enough to hit Earth’s ...

Astronomers have spent three decades cataloguing the stars that supermassive black holes destroy — and for three decades, they have been looking in the wrong places. A paper published Monday in The ...

Startup launches robot to rescue NASA's Swift telescope, testing a bold new way to extend aging spacecraft missions.

NASA has sent an 880-lb. robotic spacecraft into low Earth orbit to try to save the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory from a ...

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NASA's robot is racing to save the falling Swift telescope. See how this daring private-sector mission aims to extend its ...

Rescue mission launched: NASA launched the LINK spacecraft aboard a Pegasus XL rocket to save the Swift Observatory from re-entering Earth's atmosphere. High stakes technology: The mission tests ...

Fresh images from orbit mark an important step in an ambitious mission that aims to give one of NASA's longest-running space observatories a new lease of life.

China's test firing of a nuclear-capable ballistic missile into the South Pacific on Monday has added to unease in the Pacific over military posturing and strategic alliances.

NASA’s effort to save the Swift space telescope from an uncontrolled reentry has crossed a critical threshold: ground teams have established contact with the LINK spacecraft that will attempt to raise ...

High above the remote Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and the northernmost part of Australia, an air-launched rocket fired into space on Independence Day weekend to kick off a weekslong ...

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