NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups

NASA is quietly ending financial support for independent planetary science advisory groups, according to a letter posted to the agency’s website on January 16. The affected groups have historically ...

Science shakeup at NASA

NASA has cut funding for key independent advisory groups that help guide the agency’s scientific research, citing cost ...
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NASA Selects Three New Science Payloads for Future Lunar Missions

NASA has selected three new lunar science investigations to be delivered to the Moon under the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, initiative and Artemis campaign. The research ...

NASA study using 50-year-old Apollo moon samples suggests Earth’s water may not have come from meteorites

A new NASA study using Apollo lunar soil samples challenges a long-held theory. It suggests meteorites were not the primary ...
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Stardust: The NASA Mission That Brought Back Particles From "The Very Origins Of The Solar System"

I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...
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NASA’s new AI just spotted 7,000 planet candidates in a single sweep

NASA has unveiled a new version of its exoplanet-hunting artificial intelligence model, ExoMiner++, capable of analyzing ...

Congress approves $24.4 billion 2026 budget for NASA, rejecting deep cuts proposed by Donald Trump

President Donald Trump is expected to sign the legislation, H.R. 6938, that would provide NASA with a $24.4 billion budget ...
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NASA launches Pandora telescope, taking JWST's search for habitable worlds to a new level

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

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 released an appropriations bill that would mostly ignore those cuts. The ...

Congress passes bill to fund U.S. science agencies, rebuffing Trump’s requested cuts

In a rebuff of the Trump administration’s proposal to drastically cut funding for federal science agencies, the Senate voted ...
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NASA's Mars Sample Return is dead, leaving China to retrieve signs of life from the Red Planet

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...
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NASA is sending 100-year-old artifacts into deep space: Here’s why

NASA’s upcoming Artemis II mission, as detailed in the official statement published by NASA, will carry not only astronauts ...