Pluto’s most powerful new advocate is now the head of NASA. On Tuesday, April 28, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations to discuss the agency’s fiscal 2027 budget request. Most of the hearing covered the usual ground: Artemis II’s recent success, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch timeline, […]

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Most of the time when this question gets asked, the answer is some version of “probably not.” The search is too big, the instruments too small, the universe too empty. I have made that case myself, and I think it is correct as a description of where we have been. It is not, however, a […]

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I have a friend who has not posted on social media in four years. Not a dramatic exit with an announcement. Not a digital detox that ended after two weeks. He just quietly stopped, and when people ask him about it he says something like, I realized I was editing my weekends before I was […]

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House and Senate appropriators criticized a NASA budget proposal for fiscal year 2027 that includes significant cuts, suggesting they may instead use last year’s spending bill as a guide.