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In the United States, NASA's science programs are facing historic funding cuts. A new proposed federal budget slashes the ...
In our analysis this week, we look at how NASA's proposed budget would slash the agency's science division by nearly 50%.
NASA has been studying the effects of space on human health for over 50 years, focusing on how zero gravity, lack of fresh ...
Dan Weedman was a senior official at NASA and the National Science Foundation from 1992-2002, including serving as the head ...
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 ...
Instead, based on the budget process to date and statements from the White House, they view the memos as an effort by the ...
However, looming challenges to science right now are not in the laboratory or field. ... As we speak, NASA is monitoring an asteroid that could impact our planet in 2032.
The proposed 2026 NASA budget includes a 24% overall reduction, decreasing funding to $18.8 billion—the lowest since 1961 (inflation-adjusted). This significantly impacts the Science Mission ...
The Planetary Society, a nonprofit advocacy group for space science, estimates that 41 current or planned missions, roughly a third of NASA’s portfolio, would be terminated if the Trump budget ...
The 25th annual Student Launch Challenge is one of NASA's Artemis Student Challenges, meant to encourage students in the science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, fields.
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.