Space Exploration in the Backyard, on a Budget—How NASA Simulates Conditions in Space Without Blasting Off

Analog missions, like those conducted at NASA’s CHAPEA facility at the Johnson Space Center, help scientists study human ...

Students get a flying start into space by working with NASA

For high school and college-level students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics , the unique learning ...
USA Today

Do rockets still launch during a government shutdown? How NASA could feel the effects

Of more than 18,000 workers employed at NASA, about 82.8% of them would be sent home without pay – or furloughed – during a government shutdown. Even if the government were to shut down, NASA's ...
GovCon Wire

NASA Picks STC to Support Atmospheric Science Research at Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA has awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to Science and Technology Corp., or STC, to support the agency’s atmospheric science research ...
IFLScience

NASA Proposes Blowing Up Asteroid 2024 YR4 So It Doesn't Hit The Moon

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...
Sun Sentinel

NASA, NOAA space weather satellites to launch under cloud of Trump’s science hit list

Despite President Trump seeking to cut NASA’s science mission budget nearly in half, the agency is set to send up its latest hardware to study space weather. NASA and the National Oceanic and ...
Science Daily

NASA just confirmed its 6,000th alien world. Some are truly bizarre

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas giants hugging their stars to planets covered in lava or clouds of gemstones, ...
Ars Technica

In a win for science, NASA told to use House budget as shutdown looms

The situation with the fiscal year 2026 budget for the United States is, to put it politely, kind of a mess. The White House proposed a budget earlier this year with significant cuts for a number of ...
Astronomy

Bipartisan reps urge House leaders to add NASA funding protection to stopgap bill

The White House proposed a 24% budget cut to NASA for fiscal year 2026, a significant departure from historical precedent, with a 47% reduction specifically targeting science programs. Congress, ...
CBS News

NASA says solar activity is increasing after decades-long lull: "The sun is slowly waking up"

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space weather and technology on Earth, NASA announced this week. A new research, ...
Futurism

Trump Executive Order Quietly Declared That NASA Is Now a Spy Agency

The Trump administration issued an executive order late last month, quietly declaring that NASA will operate as a national intelligence and security agency going forward. The order stipulates that the ...
Snopes.com

NASA announced it found life on Mars?

NASA announced it found promising potential biosignatures on Mars. Potential biosignatures are things like chemicals and structures that could be a result of life on the planet, but more research was ...