NASA’s science budget won’t be a train wreck after all

On Monday, Congress made good on those promises, releasing a $24.4 billion budget plan for NASA as part of the conferencing ...

Defying Trump’s NASA proposal, Congress looks to maintain budget, including science, near current levels

Last year President Trump pitched a severe chop to NASA’s proposed annual budget for 2026, but the House and Senate on Monday ...
Science Mission Directorate

NASA’s Pandora Satellite, CubeSats to Explore Exoplanets, Beyond

A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or ...
Nature

NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

NASA discovered ‘resilient’ microbes in its cleanrooms

Spacecraft are assembled in specialized “cleanrooms” that are designed to avoid contamination from dust and microorganisms.
Live Science

NASA telescope combines 100 maps of the universe into one: 'every astronomer is going to find something of value here'

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

'I love science': NASA administrator explains decision to close Goddard library

NASA’s newly confirmed administrator visited Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and defended the decision to close the ...
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NASA science funding may avoid catastrophe after all

The fight over NASA science funding has swung from existential alarm to cautious optimism in a matter of months. What once looked like a near-death experience for some of the agency’s most important ...
Big Island Now

NASA balloon searching for tiny particles called neutrinos now soaring over Antarctica

The mission — known as Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations, or PUEO — lifted off Dec. 20, 2025, from NASA’s launch ...

NASA finds starless, dark-matter astronomical object using Hubble Space Telescope — first confirmed detection of its kind in universe

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9.” ...