A daring mission failed to rescue NASA’s Swift telescope, and the nearly 22-year-old observatory will soon burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.

A private spacecraft failed to rescue NASA's Swift space telescope, meaning the big observatory will come crashing back to Earth in the near future. But details are sparse at the moment.

A satellite called LINK that recently launched to boost the orbit of a falling space observatory won’t be able to carry out its daring rescue mission after all. Related video above: New images of the ...

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A Soviet spacecraft that stalled on its way to Venus is about to fall back to Earth, space-debris trackers say, and nobody knows where it might land. Trackers think the object that's rapidly losing ...

Kosmos 482 is a Soviet space probe that’s been circling Earth for 53 years. It was initially tasked with exploring Venus, but the mission was a failure, and it’s been stuck in the Earth’s orbit ever ...

Series of in-flight problems meant Link, a ‘commercial space robot’, could not salvage the Nasa observatory ...

The spacecraft suffered an engine anomaly that left it stuck in Earth's orbit for decades, and now it's slated for an uncontrolled reentry. Reading time 2 minutes A 53-year-old Venus probe that failed ...