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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A three-armed spacecraft rocketed into orbit Friday to rescue a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth. Northrop Grumman launched Katalyst Space ...

In July 2026, as an emergency physician, I was following news that I simply couldn't take my eyes off of. NASA is attempting to "rescue" the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a space telescope that has ...

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. By Kenneth Chang See more of our coverage in ...

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A 'prelude to a supernova' is how NASA describes this stunning new James Webb Space Telescope image of Wolf-Rayet Star WR 124. Travel 15,000 light years in this zoom-in to see the amazing look. Credit ...

A robotic tugboat has launched to pull a decades-old space telescope to safety. A private spacecraft called LINK is on its way to rescue NASA’s Swift space telescope from a fiery death in Earth’s ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission. The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with ...