A Nasa-funded robot has blasted off to catch a falling telescope in mid-orbit and blast it back to safety before it burns up.

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

7 Jaw dropping James Webb space telescope images.

Without a rescue mission, NASA’s Swift Observatory, which studies some of the most powerful explosions in the universe, will ...

Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft is designed to capture and boost NASA's Swift observatory back to a safe altitude.

Reported by: Jenipher Camino Gonzalez with AP, AFP | Edited by: Sean Sinico A recovery mission to rescue NASA's telescope ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe an oddball gas giant exoplanet orbiting a dead star.

NASA on Friday launched a rocket into space to save one of its most iconic telescopes from falling to Earth. In a ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has released four stunning images of cosmic wonders, depicted in red, white and blue for the ...

NASA’s attempt to save an aging space telescope from falling back to Earth was delayed Thursday after a launch issue scrubbed the first-of-its-kind rescue mission. NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift ...

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