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In the United States, NASA's science programs are facing historic funding cuts. A new proposed federal budget slashes the ...
With Trump’s new budget cutting NASA science programs, the Mars Sample Return mission could be replaced by a private-sector ...
NASA has been studying the effects of space on human health for over 50 years, focusing on how zero gravity, lack of fresh ...
NASA is offering $3 million in a competition to recycle waste in space, called the LunaRecycle challenge. A two track, two-phase competition open to anyone on the globe-- focusing on the design ...
Science is valuable to society, but we will need to overcome these 3 challenges to fully maximize its potential for the nation and beyond.
President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request, if approved by Congress, would kill many of NASA’s plans for robotic exploration of the solar system. Gone, too, would be multiple space ...
NASA announced the selection of 71 student teams that will build and launch amateur rockets and scientific payloads in a competition they hope will inspire the next generation of space explorers.
NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if the cache can make it back in the 2030s.
Trump’s 2026 NASA budget proposal slashes science funding by 47%, putting more than 40 current and planned missions at risk.
Trump's proposed 50% cut in NASA's science budget would turn the agency into an empty shell. Who's behind this?
In our analysis this week, we look at how NASA's proposed budget would slash the agency's science division by nearly 50%.