NASA's Swift Observatory is in peril. A last minute mission to save it could make spaceflight history. Here's everything to know.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Warehouse roofs slide back at sunset to reveal telescopes mounted inside the buildings at Starfront Observatories Image by Core ...

This article was originally published on Supercluster, a website dedicated to telling humanity’s greatest outer space stories. David Rankin is the closest thing Earth has to a space superhero. As an ...

Students and faculty at BYU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy understand the value of the stars, and they dedicate their livelihoods to uncovering the mysteries of a vast and vibrant universe. Few ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has reached Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it has begun final preparations for launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The observatory arrived on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA is planning a daring mission to save one of its space telescopes that is in danger of falling back to Earth. The Swift ...

NASA is set to launch a robotic rescue mission on Tuesday aimed at saving the aging telescope that is currently falling towards Earth. The objective of this daring mission is to rescue deteriorating ...

Winds exceeding 110 mph that tore across the top of Mount Hamilton early Christmas morning blasted a massive steel protective door off the iconic white dome at Lick Observatory. Now, with back-to-back ...

An Arizona startup, Katalyst Space Technologies, is undertaking a daring mission to save NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. Launched in 2004, Swift is a crucial telescope for studying gamma-ray ...

After Santa delivered big trouble to Lick Observatory — the iconic astronomy complex atop Mount Hamilton east of San Jose where ferocious winds early Christmas morning blasted open the steel dome ...