NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
Failure could've triggered a small explosion
Science15 May 2025 | 79
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Saudi CubeSat gets golden ticket on doomed SLS rocket
Trump greenlights slot for Riyadh as NASA's pricey booster teeters on the brink
Science14 May 2025 | 14
VIPER rover banished to storage as moonshot plan sputters
NASA cancels solicitation to get a partner to launch, land, and operate the bot for free
Science09 May 2025 | 12
NASA JPL boss bails for 'personal reasons' as budget cuts bite
Updated Laurie Leshin to leave in June
Science08 May 2025 | 16
ESA feeling weightless and unwanted amid proposed NASA cuts
Euro space agency insists it's reliable and desirable in face of 'abusive spouse'
Science08 May 2025 | 15
NASA jettisons Neo4j database for Memgraph citing costs
It's not rocket science, it's budgeting
Databases07 May 2025 | 6
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Trump wants to fire quarter of NASA budget into black hole – and not in a good way
Proposed cuts would mean: No Lunar Gateway, Artemis hardware to retire, ISS toast in 2030
Science02 May 2025 | 121
NASA probes propulsion problem in Psyche's thrusters
Mission to a metal asteroid lacks xenon pressure
Science01 May 2025 | 5
'I guess NASA doesn't need or care about my work anymore'
Former Space Shuttle boss's blog booted from Trump-era agency website
Science30 Apr 2025 | 39
No rest for the rocketry as NASA's Easter weekend heats up
Returning crew and a vital supply launch distract managers from chocolate eggs
Science17 Apr 2025 | 18
Small ocean swirls may have an outsized effect on climate, NASA satellite shows
SWOT satellite lets scientists observe small-scale eddies and waves for the first time
Science17 Apr 2025 | 16
20 years on, DART still a masterclass in how not to rendezvous in orbit
Two decades have passed since NASA made two spacecraft collide
Science16 Apr 2025 | 10
US senator warns 'China is cheering' for proposed NASA budget cuts
Bipartisan support needed to keep DOGE from the door
Science15 Apr 2025 | 63
White House budget proposal could beam NASA science back decades
Houston, we have a funding problem
Science14 Apr 2025 | 27
NASA doubles odds of Moon hitting near-Earth asteroid
Heads up to those living on lunar base in 2032: DUCK!!
Science05 Apr 2025 | 54
Brits to build ExoMars landing gear after Russia sent packing
Airbus UK wins £150M contract to revive long-delayed rover project
Science29 Mar 2025 | 44
Boeing's Starliner may fly again, pending fixes to literally everything
Updated More than 70 percent of anomalies closed out, but those pesky thrusters are still a problem
Science28 Mar 2025 | 35
From concept to cosmos: Webb engineers on the telescope that changed everything
Interview JWST trio awarded IEEE Simon Ramo medal: 'I'm proud of the whole damn team'
Science28 Mar 2025 | 12
ISS resupply and trash pickup craft postponed indefinitely after Cygnus container crunch
All eyes on SpaceX's April cargo mission to the orbital outpost
Science27 Mar 2025 | 20
50 years ago the last Saturn rocket rolled out of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building
Half a century later, there's a Moon rocket behind those same doors
Science26 Mar 2025 | 40
NASA rewrites Moon mission goals in quiet DEI retreat
First woman and first person of color pledges dropped
Science24 Mar 2025 | 105
NASA's inbox goes orbital after email mishap spams entire space industry
EXCLUSIVE A lone voice cries out from reply-all chaos: 'Someone tell DOGE to rehire whoever maintains this email list'
Applications21 Mar 2025 | 37
Boeing's Starliner future uncertain as NASA weighs next steps
Comment Fix testing to stretch into the summer. When will aerospace giant decide enough is enough?
Science20 Mar 2025 | 71
Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense
Comment Elements within the US space agency have elected to toe the party line
Science19 Mar 2025 | 75
SpaceX Dragon pod arrives at ISS to finally pick up stranded Boeing astronaut pair
Second time's a charm
Science17 Mar 2025 | 32
Bubble trouble in hydraulics blamed for NASA and SpaceX Crew-10 scrub
Trapped gas isn't just a party foul – it's a launch-stopper
Science14 Mar 2025 | 20
Rocket Lab says NASA lacks leadership on Mars Sample Return
Agency willing to take huge risks with human exploration, but not willing to do it for some dirt?
Science12 Mar 2025 | 29
Is NASA's science budget heading for a black hole?
COMMENT Dare mighty things ... as long as we can afford it
Science11 Mar 2025 | 111
Athena Moon lander officially FOADs – falls over and dies – in crater
Second time unlucky for Intuitive Machines, but hey, at least we got 250MB of data from it
Science07 Mar 2025 | 37
Moonshot goes sideways as Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander seemingly falls over
Space is hard. Hopefully not so hard the three rovers on this spaceship are lost
Science07 Mar 2025 | 35
More Voyager instruments shut down to eke out power supplies
Veteran probes close in on the half century
Science06 Mar 2025 | 54
Satnav systems built for Earth used by Blue Ghost lander as it approached the Moon
No, your car can't navigate in space. But perhaps colonies can find their way without dedicated lunar GPS
Science06 Mar 2025 | 39
First private moon lander to touch down safely starts sending selfies
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost planned to work for 14 days, should be useful for years thanks to its reflector that improves on Apollo-era tech
Science03 Mar 2025 | 25
The red color of Mars might have an earlier, wetter origin
Scientists pool data from ESA and NASA spacecraft to come up with a ferrihydrite theory
Science25 Feb 2025 | 9
Elon Musk calls for International Space Station to be deorbited by 2027
Plus: ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen not happy with SpaceX chief for 'lie' about 'abandoned' Starliner crew
Science21 Feb 2025 | 136
NASA's on-again, off-again job cuts – what's the plan?
Comment Lucky there isn't an asteroid headed for Earth for which a demoralized space agency might need to mount a redirect mission
Science20 Feb 2025 | 74
Odds of city-killer asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth creep upward
It's probably fine
Science19 Feb 2025 | 51
DARPA skips the lab, will head to orbit to test space manufacturing tech
Previous NOM4D experiments have gone so well, says project leader, that it's time to get real
Science12 Feb 2025 | 5
NASA’s radiation tolerant computer lives up to its name after surviving Van Allen belts
'RadPC' flew on Firefly’s Ghost Riders in the Sky mission, which has left Earth Orbit and is headed for the Moon
Off-Prem11 Feb 2025 | 38
NASA solar mission data recovering after server room flood fiasco
Spacecraft weather solar storms, but ground processing laid low by water
Disaster Recovery Week07 Feb 2025 | 22
'Abandoned' astro takes recordbreaking ninth spacewalk
Sunita Williams lays claim to lead for female EVAs
Science31 Jan 2025 | 27
Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032
Video Is this NEO the one? Yup, as in, a 1% chance of hitting us ... sadly
Science31 Jan 2025 | 75
And now something fun for a change: Building blocks of life in Bennu asteroid samples
It's a 65-million-year-old space rock stuffed with amino acids, DNA bases, and more, boffins report
Science30 Jan 2025 | 22
40 years ago, classified Shuttle mission foreshadowed Challenger's fatal flaw
O-ring erosion on Discovery would have disastrous effects a year later
Science28 Jan 2025 | 38
NASA spacewalkers to swab the ISS for microbial life
Learning how to deal with the microorganisms hitching a ride with humans
Science22 Jan 2025 | 14
Words alone won't get the stars and stripes to Mars
Comment So you want to go to the Red Planet. How deep are your pockets and how much time do you have?
Science21 Jan 2025 | 166
NASA's lunar Roomba set to suck up Moon dirt for study
Collecting regolith samples with a blast of gas
Science09 Jan 2025 | 21
Los Angeles wildfires force tens of thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed
Updated Crews battle to keep people, homes, science safe
Science08 Jan 2025 | 62
NASA has just two Mars Sample Return mission lander options left
JPL's sky crane tech or private vendor to get $5-7B contract, before hitching lift back to Earth with ESA
Science08 Jan 2025 | 10
Parker Solar Probe set for blisteringly hot date with the Sun on Christmas Eve
Ho-ho-holy heatshield!
Science23 Dec 2024 | 37
Rocks from Chinese Moon mission suggest Luna's history needs revision
Meanwhile, NASA signs off on Artemis software upgrade
Science20 Dec 2024 | 18
Stranded in space: Starliner crew to remain in orbit even longer as SpaceX faces delays
Week-long mission set to stretch into ninth month
Science19 Dec 2024 | 97
Silent NASA lander gives boffins insight into Martian dust
NASA to bid a final farewell to InSight
Science17 Dec 2024 | 8
A decade on from maiden flight, NASA's Orion is still waiting for its Moon moment
Hopefully it won't be another 10 years before the capsule is troubled by a crew
Science11 Dec 2024 | 6
NASA finds Orion heatshield cracks won't cook Artemis II crew
Lunar flights therefore set for seven-month delay and change re-entry approach, but redesign not needed
Science06 Dec 2024 | 39
Trump wants SpaceX customer Jared Isaacman as next NASA boss
Billionaire space tourist and mate of Elon pledges Americans will get to Mars
Science04 Dec 2024 | 41
SOHO, the two-year mission that forgot to retire, finally faces sunset
Probe may not make it to 30 as funding runs out and replacement is launched
Science03 Dec 2024 | 24
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory datacenter flooded, offline until 2025
Burst water pipe blots out the Sun – or at least the data about it collected from two probes
On-Prem03 Dec 2024 | 18
NASA's X-59 plane is aiming for a sonic thump, not a boom
Feature Pilot James 'Clue' Less is ready to take to the skies
Science30 Nov 2024 | 66
'Best job at JPL': What it's like to be an engineer on the Voyager project
Feature 'I love this work. I love what I'm doing. It's so cool'
Science28 Nov 2024 | 34
Abandoned US Army 'city under the ice' imaged in serendipitous NASA find
Camp Century could spill millions of gallons of sewage, diesel fuel, and nuclear waste as climate warms
Science25 Nov 2024 | 78
Mysteries in polar orbit – space's oldest working hardware still keeps its secrets
Opinion It's never aliens, but it could be underground TV repair techs
Networks25 Nov 2024 | 52
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