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Swift Telescope Restarts Operations After Commercial Rescue Is Abandoned

The failed capture by Katalyst's LINK leaves the observatory unboosted and expected to cross the 300 km altitude threshold in one to two months.

LINK Servicer Slows Spin as Teams Prepare Flight‑Software Fix

Rare X‑Ray Flash Reveals Faint Shock Breakout in Type Ic‑BL Supernova

Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Seen Shredding Star in Galaxy Outskirts

Two Meteor Showers Peak Together Late July as Moonlight Cuts Visibility

AI Flagged a Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Tearing Apart a Star

TOI-5882 Shows Chemical Evidence It Recently Engulfed a Planet

Three-Planet Parade Visible Low After Sunset Tonight

Bright Meteor Lights Up Eastern Australian Skies

Scientists Confirm Bright Green Fireball Over UK Was a Meteor

AMS Flags Unusual 2026 Fireball Surge From Anthelion Region

Astronomers Tie Distant Star’s Chaotic Fading to Evidence of a Planetary Collision

Magnetar ‘Chirp’ Identified in Superluminous Supernova as Short GRB Localized to Tidal-Stream Dwarf

Webb Data Confirms Asteroid 2024 YR4 Will Safely Fly Past the Moon in 2032

Webb Finds Dust-Obscured Red Supergiant Behind 2025 Supernova, a First for the Telescope

Star-Shredding Black Hole’s Radio Jet Still Surging, With Peak Predicted Around 2027

Impact Alert Withdrawn as Suspected Asteroid Reidentified as Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Astronomers Confirm First Triple Radio AGN in Merging Galaxy Trio

Brightest Blue Cosmic Flash Linked to Black Hole Tearing Apart a Massive Star, Studies Find

Astronomers Report Candidate 'Superkilonova' Linked to 2025 Gravitational-Wave Alert