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As the administration slashes spending on science, NASA is running low on new missions.
The 47% budget cut would obliterate NASA's science program, experts say.
NASA's leadership change comes at a pivotal moment for the agency, which is already bracing for potentially severe funding ...
There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...
The object is big – possibly as wide 12 miles, larger than the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs – and is speeding ...
Scientists have proposed a wild new theory at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham - Earth, along with the entire Milky Way galaxy, may be situated within a ...
Sedna, a distant dwarf planet three-quarters the size of Pluto, is inching toward the brightest star in our sky — and in 2076 ...
Bluish-white Regulus in Leo is moving toward the western horizon and sets around 10 p.m. in mid-July, followed a couple of ...
The first interstellar object spotted in our Solar System was the cigar-shaped ‘Oumuamua, discovered in 2017 by the ...
We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.
To do otherwise would be to cede U.S. leadership in space and science to China and other nations.” In so many words, all living former leaders of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate issued a remarkable ...
In our analysis this week, we look at how NASA's proposed budget would slash the agency's science division by nearly 50%.