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

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, 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 ...

It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable” planet. But on an eighth-floor terrace near the U.S. Capitol building, dozens of ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics are helping to lead planning efforts for NASA’s next major space telescope — and its purpose will be to ...

An important NASA scientific instrument that studies black holes and exploding stars is falling out of orbit — and quickly. Now the space agency is looking to the private sector to help raise it back ...

A late January 2026 winter storm left more than snow and ice in its wake.