NASA believes most of the space telescope burned up in the atmosphere, but some fragments may have made their way down to Earth.

The reentry of NASA's dead Swift space telescope is the end of an era for rapid-response space science.

A NASA telescope burned up in Earth's atmosphere Wednesday after a failed rescue left it tottering in orbit. A few pieces may have survived the reentry over Indonesia.

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory fell to a fiery end early Wednesday nearly 22 years after it launched.