Scientific American

NASA Commits to Plan to Build a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon by 2030

The U.S. space agency and the Department of Energy will work together to build a fission reactor on the lunar surface in the ...
SpaceNews

NASA pessimistic about odds of recovering MAVEN

NASA says it is “very unlikely” the agency will be able to recover a Mars spacecraft that has been out of contact for more ...

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 ...
Space on MSN

Experts push back against cancellation of NASA's Mars sample return project

Exploration advocates are pushing back against the planned cancellation of NASA's Mars sample return project, saying it could ...
American Institute of Physics

Congress Set to Finalize Science Budgets Rejecting Trump Cuts

The bill would cut the Office of Fossil Energy down to $720 million, including $140 million in prior year balances from the ...
Space.com on MSN

NASA funds new tech for upcoming 'Super Hubble' to search for alien life: 'We intend to move with urgency'

"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government ...
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 ...
Earth.com

NASA loses contact with one of its key probes orbiting Mars

NASA lost contact with the MAVEN probe in Mars orbit, and teams are working to reestablish communications after an unexpected ...

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 ...