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The Hubble Space Telescope faces a fiery and fatal re-entry to Earth's atmosphere sometime around 2032, but NASA is asking the private sector for ideas to keep it working

After nearly 22 years of exploring the universe’s most violent explosions, NASA’s Swift Observatory has re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over Indonesia. Originally designed to last just two years, the pioneering space telescope transformed our understanding of black holes, exploding stars, and mysterious cosmic outbursts.

Software optimizes a physical model of the telescope to reduce noise.

NASA's Swift orbital observatory fell back to Earth after running its mission for more than two decades. A rescue attempt to raise its sinking orbit had earlier failed.

The Swift Observatory's demise came less than three months after a long-shot rescue mission failed.

NASA's Swift telescope has re-entered Earth's atmosphere near Sumatra in Indonesia following a failed rescue attempt earlier this year.

NASA had previously said much of the observatory burned up upon reentry. The risk to people on Earth was low, the agency said.

One of NASA's premier space telescopes has plunged to Earth, ending its 22-year investigation of the universe's biggest explosions

<p>The observatory had spent decades studying powerful cosmic explosions and was the target of an unsuccessful rescue mission earlier this year</p>

<p>By modeling the James Webb Space Telescope&rsquo;s tiny movements, a new technique can reveal up to 15 times fainter alien worlds</p>

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, Hubble is slowly losing altitude, and without intervention, it could fall back to Earth as early as 2033 or 2034. To keep the iconic observatory operating, NASA is asking

SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- A defunct NASA telescope is expected to fall back to E...

<p>An aging Nasa satellite telescope that a robotic spacecraft was sent to retrieve on a failed rescue mission this summer was headed for a fiery re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday, nearly 22 years after it was launched into orbit.</p> <p>The<a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2012835"> Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory</a>, weighing roughly 3,200 pou

Ian Griffin says the Swift Observatory has helped humans understand the biggest explosions in the universe.

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 rescue mission to save the falling telescope, but it failed

Almost 22 years after it was launched, NASA's Swift Observatory is now about to fall back to Earth on Wednesday after attempts to push it back into a higher orbit failed. NASA announced that the aging space telescope is anticipated to re-enter Earth's atmosphere at approximately 3:30AM ET (give or take 11 hours) and that […]

After plans to save it failed, NASA's Swift telescope is hurtling back to Earth. Here's how to track its descent.

The Swift Observatory is barely clinging to space after a failed rescue effort left it tottering lower and lower.

The U.S. Space Force predicts the Swift Observatory will come crashing down on or around Friday.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An aging NASA telescope is barely clinging to space after a failed rescue effort left it tottering lower and lower.

Intricate structures within the Cat’s Head Nebula are illuminated in this mid-infrared view from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released on Oct. 29, 2026. The distinctive “cat’s head” shape of the nebula was likely sculpted over time by the intense ultraviolet radiation and winds from massive stars in the Carina Nebula. As this stellar feedback […]

NASA issued a Request for Information Oct. 29 to learn more about industry capabilities for in-space servicing to support the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope.

A sweeping barred galaxy takes center stage in this Oct. 22, 2026, image, but the gravitational lensing at bottom right is the real target. This observation is one of many gravitational lensing images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in preparation for science with the new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Astronomers will use these […]

The Webb telescope sees tiny red dots everywhere. Astronomers can’t agree on what they are, but some believe they may be enormous stars with black holes inside.