NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, launched in 2004, has been slowly losing altitude because of increased solar activity.

The NASA Swift telescope rescue sends a robotic spacecraft to grab the falling observatory and boost its orbit, a first-of-its-kind $30M mission.

A rocket launching to space from an airplane is sort of like a hat on a hat, but you know what? The more hats, the better.

The agency’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is at risk of falling into the atmosphere. A spacecraft set to launch Tuesday is tasked with pushing the satellite back into a stable…

NASA will soon attempt something it's never done before: Save a space telescope from falling back to Earth using a servicing robot.

NASA plans a bold robot mission to rescue the Swift telescope from imminent destruction in Earth's atmosphere.

US space agency NASA is preparing to launch a robotic rescue mission to haul an ageing telescope into a higher orbit to save it from burning up as it falls back down to Earth. The…

Instead of letting a 22-year-old space telescope fall to Earth, NASA wants to rescue the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory with a robotic spacecraft designed to boost the telescope…

Operation set to last several months, kicking off with launch of a robot designed to rescue Swift space telescope that’s currently falling towards Earth.

A new launch date hasn’t been set for the rush rescue mission to save a NASA space telescope

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, launched in 2004, has been slowly losing altitude because of increased solar activity.

The Swift observatory has been in orbit for 22 years but it's on track to fall from the skies.

NASA’s never-before-attempted plan to move a sensitive scientific satellite into a safer orbit has faced a week of delays—but it’s still go for launch.

A software glitch on a rocket-launching plane delayed NASA's $30 million mission to save the Swift Observatory, crucial for cosmic observations since 2004.