NASA's Swift Observatory Set for Earth Reentry Next Year

This animation shows X-rays from GRB 221009A — the brightest gamma-ray burst detected to date. NASA/Swift/A. Beardmore (University of Leicester) A 22-year-old space telescope is losing its fight [···]

NASA's doomed space telescope is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry back to Earth in the next few hours.

Nearly 5 decades after its launch, NASA's Voyager 1 is approaching a historic one-light-day milestone, putting it more than 16 billion miles from Earth. As the spacecraft moves deeper into space, [···]

NASA's experimental X-59 QueSST jet celebrated its first year in flight with a trip to the Kennedy Space Center as the agency touts the aircraft as the future of supersonic airline travel.

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NASA is exploring a daring plan to save the legendary Hubble Space Telescope from its eventual fiery plunge into Earth's atmosphere. After more than 35 years of groundbreaking discoveries, [···]

NASA explores a Hubble Space Telescope rescue mission to extend its lifespan as orbital decay puts the iconic observatory at risk by 2033.

NASA's Swift Observatory is nearing its return to Earth after 22 years in orbit. Discover its legacy, reentry timeline, and potential debris risks.

NASA's Swift Observatory is falling back to Earth after 22 years in space, and some debris could survive its fiery reentry.

NASA astronaut Anil Menon said on Tuesday, Nov. 3, that U.S. crew members aboard the International Space Station can vote in the midterm elections using an electronic ballot. The station orbits [···]

Three Nasa astronauts, including Anil Menon, cast their ballots in the US midterm elections on Tuesday, November 3, from aboard the International Space Station (ISS), orbiting more than 400 km above [···]

If astronauts can cast their ballots from orbit, what's your excuse?

Anil Menon has voted in the US midterm elections by casting an electronic ballot from the International Space Station.

Astronauts in space send their election ballots the same way they send regular daily data messages to Earth

NASA astronaut Anil Menon demonstrated on social media how he cast his ballot for Harris County in Texas, from space.

Yes, you can even vote from space!

The space agency estimated that there was a one-in-2,100 chance that debris from the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory could injure someone on the ground.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's 22-year-old Swift Observatory is crashing back to Earth on Wednesday after a failed rescue attempt.The 1,450kg telescope is expected to re-enter [···]

NASA is monitoring the uncontrolled re-entry of a space telescope that will crash back to Earth sometime on Wednesday.

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory launched in 2004 and detected thousands of astrophysical phenomena, leading to some huge discoveries. Earlier this year, experts attempted a first-of-its-kind [···]

The Swift Observatory is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday and is 'unlikely' to cause harm.

As of Monday, the U.S. Space Force predicted Swift would re-enter Earth's atmosphere at approximately 3:30 a.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 4, somewhere within about 21 degrees north or south of the equato…

An American astronaut on board the ISS recently snapped a spectacular 'fireball' streaking across the nighttime sky over West Africa. The striking 'light show' shows a Russian rocket being [···]

Without intervention, the iconic telescope will come crashing down to Earth.

Four volunteers completed a simulated Mars mission on Oct. 31 after spending 378 days in isolation at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The experiment is designed to help researchers [···]

A fiery finale.

Europe's Hera spacecraft has captured its first clear view of two asteroids involved in NASA's historic 2022 experiment to redirect a potentially dangerous space rock. Now approaching the pair, [···]

At the Seventh Manned Spaceflight Conference in Beijing, Chinese space officials publicly outlined the most detailed roadmap yet for landing astronauts on the Moon 'before 2030.' Ars Technica [···]

Learn why NASA's Swift Observatory is re-entering Earth's atmosphere, concluding its nearly 22-year-long mission in space.

Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study nearby dwarf galaxies discovered a puzzle: Those galaxies have far less oxygen than expected.

One of NASA's strangest, most daunting missions just wrapped up, and its crew didn't even leave Earth's atmosphere. Four crew members emerged over the weekend after spending a full year cooped up [···]

Swift is set to reenter the Earth's atmosphere in a matter of days and nobody knows where its remains will plummet down.

Four volunteers who spent more than a year pretending to live on Mars have finally stepped outside their isolated habitat, seeing the outside world for the first time in 378 days.The crew emerged [···]