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NASA Administrator Nominee Would Shift Future of Space Exploration

Ahead of Jared Isaacman’s renomination for the position of NASA’s administrator, a dispute between him and its acting chief Sean Duffy spilled into the open, with potentially profound consequences for the U.

When will the International Space Station be retired? NASA's plan to land it in ocean

By 2030, the iconic ISS – where the world's astronauts have lived, worked and gazed upon the cosmos for more than two decades – will be no more.

NASA Has Been Implementing Huge Budget Cuts That Congress Might Not Actually Make

Space.com has an excellent report on what's been going on, indicating that Trump appointees have been directing NASA to remake itself in the proposal's image. It's a devastating outlook — custom hardware that can't easily be replaced is simply gone,
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NASA report detects first signs of non-gravitational acceleration in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS near perihelion

JPL navigation engineer Dr. Davide Farnocchia compiled the data that captured the phenomenon as the comet reached perihelion.
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3i/Atlas sparks questions as NASA withholds new images — what’s really happening?

Atlas fuels debate as NASA delays new images. See what data exist, why releases lag, what scientists say, and what to watch next.

NASA reviewing SpaceX, Blue Origin plans for faster return to the moon - report

Elon Musk's SpaceX (SPACE) and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin (BORGN) have submitted plans to NASA for ramping up efforts to take astronauts to the moon, the agency told CNBC. NASA "has received and is evaluating plans from both SpaceX and Blue Origin for acceleration of HLS [Human Landing System] production,

Those ‘two moons’ reports aside, we still have only one

Those social media and other reports that the Earth now has two moons appear to be off the mark by about a moon. Astronomers assure that we still have only one, true lunar satellite and that the object garnering all the buzz is a so-called quasi moon, technically a “quasi satellite,” known as 2025 PN7.

NASA’s New Supersonic Jet Just Quietly Completed Its First Test Flight

NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet completed its first test flight on Tuesday, flying at subsonic speeds of 230 mph over the desert of Southern California.
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Sen. Maria Cantwell releases report citing NASA whistleblowers’ concerns about budget cuts

Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., speaks during a hearing on legislative priorities for NASA. (Senate Commerce Dems via YouTube) U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., today released a report that quotes NASA whistleblowers as saying they’ve “already seen ...
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NASA Goddard Center Scientists Stand Up to Potentially Illegal Threats

Credit: NASA This comes after a recent report by the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation released a scathing report accusing the government of improperly (and potentially illegally) attacking NASA's scientific mandate. Goddard has ...
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