The looming cancellation of RPS has placed the highest-priority planetary science mission of the coming decade at risk. In ...

The United States space agency has pioneered planetary science technologies as the world's leader in climate research for ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered ...

A declaration of dissent from past and present NASA employees warns that science and safety are at risk and joins similar documents from staff at other federal science agencies ...

NASA plans to establish a nuclear reactor on the moon, but it isn't the only one. Here's why world powers are racing against ...

NASA scientists say pending cuts to the space agency could compromise mission safety and pave the way for another tragedy like the 1986 Challenger disaster.

The focal point for much of the work in the last few years is NASA’s Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team, or HAQAST.

Facing the agency is a potentially looming budget cut from $24.8 billion to $18.8 billion, which includes a substantial hit to a significant portion of the agency's science missions and activities.

Europe’s dream of being a top space power is facing a serious challenge. The European Space Agency (ESA) has raised a red ...

Under the Trump administration, the United States government's science initiatives face a reckoning, with NASA emerging as ...

Trump's fiscal budget for 2026 does not include funding for Orbiting Carbon Observatories. Advocates hope Congress will vote to preserve funding for these missions.

The NASA budget represents less than half of one percent (a mere 0.3 percent) of the overall federal budget and NASA’s Science Mission Directorate accounts for less than one-third of that amount.