NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman defended a fiscal year 2027 budget proposal that would cut the agency’s budget by nearly 25%.

Nanoscale analysis of a sample from asteroid Bennu has revealed evidence that water did not permeate the body uniformly during its formation but instead may have flowed through restricted channels, creating sharply defined chemical neighborhoods that preserved fragile organic compounds in some zones while transforming others into mineral-rich domains. Research findings suggest this rewrites assumptions […]

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The Artemis II crew is about to fly farther from Earth than any human being has ever traveled, and the record they’re breaking belongs to a mission that nearly killed its astronauts. As the four-person crew aboard the Orion spacecraft approaches its lunar flyby, the mission is set to surpass Apollo 13’s distance mark from […]

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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman spent his weekend on national television arguing that $25.2 billion is enough money to get Americans back on the Moon, even as the budget proposal he was defending would slash the agency’s science portfolio by nearly 44% and put dozens of missions on the chopping block. The fiscal year 2027 budget […]

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In November 2026, Voyager 1 will become the first human-made object to reach one light-day from Earth. Nearly 49 years after launch, the twin Voyager missions remain the most productive space exploration program ever flown, and a case study in what happens when engineering resilience meets institutional patience.

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NASA has issued a stop-work order on Mobile Launcher 2, the troubled launch platform designed for a version of the Space Launch System rocket that the agency no longer intends to build. The decision marks the end of a project that ballooned from an initial contract to a potential multi-billion dollar liability, and it signals […]

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Sensitive security codes for a US Customs and Border Protection facility in Texas were reportedly publicly accessible for roughly six weeks on Quizlet, the popular study flashcard platform, before being taken down in March. The leak exposes a basic but persistent vulnerability in federal security: the humans tasked with protecting it. A flashcard set apparently […]

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