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HOUSTON—SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule Grace executed a successful autonomous splashdown into the Pacific Ocean off the San Diego coast early July 15, bringing an end to Ax-4, Axiom Space’s fourth ...
The president’s proposed budget for 2026 cuts the agency by nearly 25 percent. That would be the largest single-year cut in NASA’s history, taking it back to a level last seen in 1961.
Research on the ISS helped scientists tackle problems we can’t solve on Earth, from human biology to fire behavior and ...
SpaceX’s fifth and final Crew Dragon spacecraft finally made it off the ground on a private astronaut mission for Axiom Space ...
Jared Isaacman may no longer have a shot at leading NASA, but that doesn't mean the billionaire and private astronaut is done with space.
President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request, if approved by Congress, would kill many of NASA’s plans for robotic exploration of the solar system. Gone, too, would be multiple space ...
Before the ISS dies, however, it will help birth its own replacement—one that will be built and launched by the private sector, with the new modules constructed by Houston-based Axiom Space, and ...
NASA scientists are in a state of anxious limbo after the Trump administration proposed a budget that would eliminate the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies as a standalone entity.
As proposed, President Donald Trump’s 2026 budget will slash NASA funding by 25%, from $24.9 billion to $18.8 billion. NASA’s Science Mission Directorate will take a disproportionate cut of 47 ...
Dozens of NASA's spaceflight missions that launched from Florida could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.
Funding for science is very much on the chopping block in President Trump's proposed budget. It's a fraught moment for NASA, particularly for those focused on earth science and not human space ...
NASA's planned budget cuts could set back space science, but show how to future-proof the agency by Loizos Heracleous, The Conversation ...