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NASA is flying a July mission to rescue its aging Swift space telescope

NASA’s effort to save the Swift space telescope from an uncontrolled reentry has crossed a critical threshold: ground teams ...
Tech Times

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Older Than Our Sun, VLT Isotopic Fingerprint Confirms

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries isotopic ratios entirely outside the Solar System range, ESO’s Very Large Telescope has ...
Aerospace and Mechanical Insider on MSN

NASA’s Swift Rescue tests US robotic satellite servicing under pressure

Apart from the obvious factor of saving Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory for conducting scientific research, the NASA project ...
Scientific American

NASA unveils an astronomical fireworks show, complete with sound effects, for July 4

NASA is lighting the cosmos in red, white and blue in honor of the 250 t h birthday of the United States—and the show even ...

Mission launched to rescue a falling space telescope

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

Daring rescue mission launches to save a 3,200-pound NASA observatory from an untimely end

A first-of-its-kind mission launched Friday in the hopes of preventing NASA’s Swift Observatory from dropping out of ...

A Rescue Mission to Save NASA’s Swift Telescope Launches to Orbit

A refrigerator-size spacecraft will try to grab onto Swift and nudge it to a higher orbit, enabling it to continue observing powerful cosmic explosions.
Smithsonian Magazine

America’s First Space Station Proved Humans Could Live and Work in Orbit for Months. Now, the Public Can See What It Looked Like in Person for the First Time i…

A backup version of Skylab was displayed when the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum opened 50 years ago. After ...

Nautilus array to track missing exoplanet atmospheres

Exoplanet atmospheres have become prime targets for astrobiologists in the search for life beyond Earth. This is because exoplanet surfaces can't be directly imaged yet, so astronomers must get ...
CNET

NASA's Moon Base Update: All's Well Despite the Blue Origin New Glenn Explosion

NASA formally announced its Moon Base back in March 2026 and has been working on several projects simultaneously to further the objective of putting people on the moon in a more permanent capacity. ...