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A proposed fiscal year 2027 budget for NASA would cut the agency's overall funding by 23% and slash its science programs by nearly half, prompting strong opposition from the space community.The Planetary Society, the world's largest independent space interest...

NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 8:49 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 8, for the next launch delivering science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. Filled with approximately 11,000 pounds of cargo, the...

Astronomers think they have seen a type of explosion produced by a dying star called a dirty fireball for...

We’re getting closer and closer to finding a real Earth-like exoplanet. But finding one is only half the battle. To truly know if we’re looking at an Earth analog somewhere else...

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Science & Exploration 02/04/2026 1560 views 15 likes‘Extreme but not exotic,’ – a glimpse at Comet 3I/ATLAS through the eyes of the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice). In November 2025, Juice was in the right place, at the...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — There's a little potty problem on NASA's Artemis 2 moon ship.Within hours of launch on Wednesday evening (April 1), the four astronauts of NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission reported a glitch in what may have...

I am currently reading the science-fiction classic Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson with the New Scientist Book Club...

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir took this photo of an Artemis program patch floating in the International Space Station’s cupola. She posted it on X on March 30, 2026, with the following caption: “Our work on the @Space_Station has provided...

From left to right, NASA astronauts Andre Douglas, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronauts Jenni Gibbons, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen pose for a photo before the Artemis II crew proceed...