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NASA Selects Far-Infrared Telescope as First in New Mission Class

NASA announced Wednesday a mission to explore the history and evolution of the universe, PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission ...
Astronomy

Advocates rally to “Save NASA Science” amidst government shutdown

Nearly 300 space advocates from across the United States converged on Capitol Hill on Oct. 6 for a “Save NASA Science” Day of Action, pressing lawmakers to protect the agency’s budget. The event, ...
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NASA sinks science center during shutdown, critics warn

NASA’s premier research hub, the flagship science center, is reportedly “sinking” due to the ongoing government shutdown. Critics argue that this deterioration not only threatens the center’s ...
Astronomy

How the government shutdown affects NASA

At 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 1, when the federal government shut down due to a lack of appropriations from Congress, NASA began pausing its operations. While the agency has protocols for dealing with a ...
gizmodo

Crucial NASA Science Missions Hang in the Balance As U.S. Government Shutdown Drags On

One of the missions, currently on its way to an asteroid, has been saved, but the fate of several others depend on the outcome of the budget dispute. Reading time 3 minutes NASA employees are bracing ...
Ars Technica

One NASA science mission saved from Trump’s cuts, but others still in limbo

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of the Earth in 2029, reversing the Trump administration’s previous plan to ...
Yahoo

As the government shutdown continues, which parts of NASA and KSC remain open?

"NASA is currently CLOSED due to a lapse in Government funding," reads a NASA webpage on the government shutdown. Monday marked day 6 of the government shutdown and lawmakers don't appear any closer ...
The Planetary Society

Revisiting NASA funding as the government reopens

With the U.S. government reopened and funded through Jan. 30, Congress is back to work on deciding how much to invest in federal agencies for fiscal year (FY) 2026, including NASA. Lawmakers have ...
CNN

NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear

Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland — the nerve center for groundbreaking missions like the Hubble and James Webb ...
Washington Post

NASA has lost thousands of workers. Here’s what that means for science.

For 13 consecutive years, NASA has been named the “Best Place to Work in the Federal Government” among large agencies. But since the Trump administration took over and proposed deep budget cuts, there ...
TMCnet

USRA Contributes Planetary Science Expertise to NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model

Universities Space Research Association (USRA) contributed planetary science expertise, lunar dataset development, and scientific evaluation to the newly released NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, an ...