NASA is facing a race against time to save its 21-year-old spacecraft, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has been on ...

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a 21-year-old space telescope that has tracked gamma-ray bursts and cosmic explosions since 2004, is losing altitude fast enough that the agency has suspended ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA has tapped startup Katalyst to save a $500 million orbiting observatory from falling into Earth's atmosphere by launching a spacecraft meant to push it farther in space, a ...

To avoid Swift being dragged down low enough to hit Earth’s atmosphere, NASA tapped an Arizona-based startup to launch a ...

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is in safe mode to allow the mission team to investigate the issue. On the evening of January 18th, the Swift observatory temporarily halted its science ...

The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) under development will serve as a pathfinder for one element of the Earth System Observatory suite of missions announced by NASA May 24. Credit: NASA/JPL ...

On February 11, 2010, NASA launched a spacecraft to study the inner workings of the sun. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series ...

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has run into difficulties after 17 years of largely smooth service. The orbiting explorer has entered safe mode after detecting a "possible failure" in one of the ...

NASA is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its Chandra X-ray Observatory launch by sharing never-before-seen photos of the largest known spiral galaxy in the universe. The Chandra X-ray observatory ...

NASA’s Swift Observatory, which investigates high-energy phenomena like gamma-ray bursts, has returned to operations following an issue which forced it into safe mode last month. “NASA’s Neil Gehrels ...

Since its founding in 1999, NASA Earth Observatory has been documenting our world's beauties, oddities, and intricate intricacies. It provides access to pictures taken by astronauts aboard the ...

WASHINGTON — NASA is making progress on a multibillion-dollar series of Earth science missions amid uncertainty about their funding for the next year. In town hall sessions at the Fall Meeting of the ...