A mission to raise the orbit of NASA’s Swift observatory is poised for launch June 30.

For more than two decades, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has acted as one of astronomy's fastest cosmic first responders. The space telescope has detected thousands of…

NASA's daring Swift Boost mission launches June 27 to save the nearly 22-year-old Swift observatory , which is being dragged out of space by Earth's atmosphere.

The Swift Observatory, launched in 2004, has been falling back to Earth due to recent higher-than-usual solar activity.