A backyard astronomer’s guide to summer 2026 in the Bay Area

Here’s how to see the year’s most-intense meteor shower, a blood-red lunar eclipse and Saturn’s refreshed rings this summer.

Rescue mission launches to save NASA telescope that's falling back to Earth

A three-armed spacecraft is rushing to the rescue of a NASA telescope that's in danger of crashing back to Earth ...

NASA Reveals Four Cosmic Masterpieces for America’s 250th Birthday

NASA unveiled four patriotic-colored images of the cosmos to celebrate America's 250th birthday, revealing everything from an ...

Daring rescue mission launches to save a 3,200-pound NASA observatory from an untimely end

A first-of-its-kind mission launched Friday in the hopes of preventing NASA’s Swift Observatory from dropping out of ...
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NASA launches satellite to investigate Europa, Jupiter’s 'mysterious moon'

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA's Europa Clipper mission on Monday launched a satellite to investigate Europa, Jupiter’s “mysterious moon” — a world covered in ice that scientists say could have an ocean ...

A Rescue Mission to Save NASA’s Swift Telescope Launches to Orbit

A refrigerator-size spacecraft will try to grab onto Swift and nudge it to a higher orbit, enabling it to continue observing powerful cosmic explosions.

Hot Jupiter winds reveal exoplanet magnetic fields for first time

Planets beyond our solar system can have magnetic fields similar to those closer to home, astronomers said Tuesday after observing extreme winds on scorching worlds known as "hot Jupiters." ...
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NASA launches rescue mission to save the Swift space telescope

NASA has launched the LINK spacecraft on a mission to rendezvous with the aging Swift observatory and boost it into a higher ...