NASA Cuts Imperil Vertical Flight Technology Leadership

Proposed cuts to NASA's aeronautics budget would have a outsized impact on critical research for civil and military ...

NASA's tally of planets outside our solar system reaches 6,000

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...
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NASA Prepares First Ever Rocket Launch Off Mars for Historic Return to Earth

NASA and China are locked in an unprecedented competition to achieve humanity's first rocket launch from another planet's ...

NASA's Deep Space Communications demo exceeds project expectations

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded in lasers can be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth ...

NASA says solar activity is increasing after decades-long lull: "The sun is slowly waking up"

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...

NASA Records More Than 6,000 Exoplanets and Counting

Since astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system in 1992 and the first planet around a sunlike star in 1995 ...

Building Nuclear Power in the U.S. Is Tough. NASA Wants to Do It on the Moon.

In August, NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy directed the agency to fast-track an effort to land a reactor on the moon by late 2029. The agency wants a 100-kilowatt system, about enough to power a ...
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We’re Running out of Metal!? #technology #space #nasa

As US reliability falters, Saudi Arabia turns to a nuclear-armed ally Democrats' chances of flipping Florida governor's seat: ...

NASA at a crossroads: Trump’s plan to refocus, explore and beat China

Trump's space vision adds to NASA's budget, prioritizing Moon missions and orbital platforms while streamlining the agency's ...
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'We're really on a different trajectory': How NASA's Artemis moon missions aim to prepare us for Mars

An uncrewed mission called Artemis 1 flew around the moon and back again in 2022. Four astronauts aim to do the same next ...
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NASA Calls On Students to Fix Aviation Maintenance

NASA, alongside private sector partners such as Boeing and RTX, is also backing a three-year competition called GoAERO that calls on students and other participants to design and build self-flying ...