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President Donald Trump unveiled a budget blueprint last week that includes roughly $6 billion in federal funding cuts to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Despite the ...
The spacewalk lasted about 6.5 hours, according to NASA. Two NASA astronauts have completed a spacewalk, stepping outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday to take part in U.S ...
WASHINGTON — NASA has canceled plans to find a commercial partner to launch a robotic lunar rover and will instead pursue “alternative approaches” to fly the mission. In a May 7 statement ...
The trajectory of her life has been so turbulent, in fact, that NASA, her previous employer, published a feature article about her determination on its website. That story chronicles her journey ...
A couple of weeks ago, ground teams at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida removed one of the four main engines from the Space Launch System rocket slated to send four astronauts on a voyage ...
NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer was developed as part of the astrophysics Small Explorer (SMEX) program. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA is delaying the next competition for an ...
The rumors about impending NASA budget cuts were well-founded, it turns out. The Trump administration released its proposed 2026 "skinny budget" today (May 2), laying out in broad strokes how it ...
The International Space Station is facing a $1 billion budget shortfall – separate from President Donald Trump's plans to further cut funding – that will require dropping the number of NASA ...
NASA's Perseverance rover had a tough time extricating a drill bit from a rock it was trying to sample last week. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU NASA's Perseverance rover almost had to let go of ...
As NASA ramps up plans to return to the moon and, eventually, Mars, it is moving forward with plans to shrink its workforce by incentivizing employees to leave government. The space agency is ...
If watching rocket launches and other cosmic news is your thing, you now have a new way to keep up with everything NASA. The U.S. space agency announced that its streaming service, NASA+ ...
NASA is considering scaling back its activities on the International Space Station, according to multiple sources. The changes, which are being considered primarily due to shortfalls in the space ...