Delays and concerns about NASA’s future budgets doomed the VIPER mission, which aimed to search for ice near the moon’s south pole. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang has reported on the highs and ...

Scoping of such missions usually takes place under NASA’s “Lunar Future” program or division. For 2026, NASA is proposing its funding to go from $10 million to $0. Although the “Budget Technical ...

Gravitational wave observatory LISA, Venus orbiter EnVision, and the largest X-ray observatory ever planned, NewAthena, will ...

The proposed NASA budget said that it will sustain funding for the Artemis II mission, scheduled for early 2026, and the Artemis III mission in 2027, but future missions would cancel the Gateway ...

"China is cheering this every step of the way," added the Senator. Van Hollen is no stranger to protesting cuts and program cancellations. In September 2024, he cosigned a letter [PDF] expressing ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule with a soft splashdown off Florida's coast, nine months after their faulty Boeing Starliner craft upended what ...

NASA has once again postponed the Artemis II Moon mission, which is now scheduled for April 2026, and it’s targeting mid-2027 for Artemis III’s Moon landing.

Deep cuts would slash spending elsewhere at NASA, especially the agency’s robotic space science missions. Proposed cancellations include a mission to bring back rock samples from Mars, and ...