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Ars Live Recap: Where does NASA go from here?
At present, the current leading candidate to lead NASA is a former Air Force lieutenant general, Steve Kwast. His priority is ...
Amid Musk threat to decommission SpaceX Dragon, NASA reveals more Boeing Starliner delays
As the fracas between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump escalated to the point of Musk threatening to decommission ...
The NASA science missions that would be axed in Trump’s 2026 budget
President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request, if approved by Congress, would kill many of NASA’s plans for robotic ...
Could an asteroid hit the moon? Odds rise after NASA's Webb examines YR4. The projections
Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...
NASA Pulls the Plug on Europa Lander, but Scientists Propose a Plan B
Europa has long been a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial biology because scientists suspect it harbors a ...
NASA provides hardware for space station DNA repair experiment
When it comes to helping NASA scientists better understand the effects of space travel on the human body, fruit flies are the ...
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Elon Musk threatened to decommission Dragon spacecraft. Here's what that would mean for NASA
Space science experts told ABC News SpaceX has been essential to NASA’s missions and the breakdown of a relationship would ...
Trump Pulled His NASA Pick, But Jared Isaacman Would’ve Rebuilt the Moon Program
The fallen NASA administrator nominee was clearly not a fan of the agency's plan to return astronauts to the Moon.
NASA Tracking Three Asteroids Approaching Earth
NASA is monitoring three asteroids soaring past the Earth at about 8,000 to 15,000 miles per hour, the biggest of which ...
NASA, Pentagon push for SpaceX alternatives amid Trump’s feud with Musk
The worried reaction within space and national security agencies highlights the risks of government’s exclusive dependence on ...
'City killer' asteroid, headed earlier for Earth, now set to hit moon in 2032? NASA's latest update
Experts at NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies have updated the 2024 YR4’s chance of hitting the Moon in 2032 to 4.3 ...