NASA IS NOW IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIRST OF ITS KIND MISSION. ONE OF ITS SPACE TELESCOPES NEEDS TO BE RESCUED. THE SWIFT ...

A first-of-its-kind mission launched Friday in the hopes of preventing NASA’s Swift Observatory from dropping out of ...

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.

The number of satellites in orbit around Earth has exploded from fewer than 8,000 satellites before 2019 to over 14,000 now. Many are from SpaceX’s own Starlink network, which a ...

Every time I see the moon in the sky, it makes me happy. Our natural satellite is so familiar it’s easy to take it for ...

A spacecraft rocketed into orbit Friday to rescue a NASA telescope that is in danger of crashing back to Earth.

The rate of Starlink satellite disposals between December 2025 and May 2026 increased slightly from the previous six months, ...

NASA's upgraded Cold Atom Lab came back online aboard the International Space Station this week — the fourth and final hardware overhaul of a facility that has spent eight years turning the ISS into ...

In 2024, researchers realized that the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was falling from its orbit faster than expected. Now, a robotic spacecraft called LINK aims to give the satellite a boost ...

Without going into too much detail, the fundamental shift was to stop treating every rocket launch as a dramatic one-off experiment built from scratch by teams of specialists. Rockets also ceased to ...

Ark Invest Management’s Big Ideas 2026 report predicts that emerging technologies will transform the global economy over the next decade. Courtesy image Key takeaway: The St. Petersburg startup scene, ...

United Therapeutics is collaborating with Varda Space Industries to test pharmaceuticals in outer space. Varda Space Industries, a startup that’s been pitching its ability to perform drug experiments ...