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 ...

At least three ESA space missions are under threat as a result of Trump's budget cuts. The gravitational wave observatory LISA, Venus orbiter EnVision, and NewAthena may require "recovery actions." ...

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 ...

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 ...

Washington Planetary scientists in the United States have criticized a string of recent cancellations of missions at NASA, warning that they may put the future health of US planetary exploration ...