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NASA's plans to return to the Moon are seemingly on very thin ice. Key senior officials are departing and enthusiasm for Mars is growing.

It Kinda Sounds Like NASA Is Gutting Its Plans for a Moon Landing

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's workforce is undergoing brutal cuts under the Trump administration. Roughly ten percent of its workforce has already been culled.

Trump Enacts Brutal Cuts at NASA

By Victor Tangermann

Amid Donald Trump's sweeping push to roll back DEI efforts, employees at NASA are reportedly being told to hide their love away.

NASA Orders Employees to Throw Out Rainbow Flags and Any Other Items Signaling LGBTQI Support

By Noor Al-Sibai

As part of Trump's anti-DEI agenda, NASA has been ordered to have employees remove anything "specifically targeting women" from its sites.

Trump Orders NASA to Purge All Mentions of Women in Leadership On Its Websites

By Frank Landymore

The future of NASA is uncertain, with the chaotic start of president Donald Trump's second term raising plenty of unanswered questions.

NASA Is In Tatters

By Victor Tangermann

The Trump administration is wasting no time in imposing its vision across the United States government, and NASA is no exception.

Trump Begins Purge of DEI NASA Employees

By Victor Tangermann

In the wake of director David Lynch's death, NASA has joined the throngs of mourners celebrating the life of the "Mulholland Drive" auteur.

NASA Posts Touching Tribute to the Late David Lynch

By Noor Al-Sibai

Congress is none too pleased after Elon Musk declared that "the Moon is a distraction" and that NASA should be going "straight to Mars."

Congress Alarmed at Elon Musk’s Plan to Cancel NASA Moon Landing

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California is under an evacuation order due to a spreading wildfire.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab Evacuated as Los Angeles Burns

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is calling for NASA to ditch its Moon program, arguing that the "Moon is a distraction" and that "we're going straight to Mars.

Elon Musk Trying to Scrap NASA’s Moon Program

By Victor Tangermann

Former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao says he encountered a pair of large metallic orbs while flying his plane over Houston, Texas in 2023.

Former NASA Astronaut Puzzled by Metallic Orbs He Encountered While Flying

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is just days away from flying into the Sun, in a daring bid to glean the secrets of our star's megahot winds.

A NASA Spacecraft Is About to Fly Through the Sun

By Frank Landymore

NASA has shown off an early rendering of an enormous Mars Chopper concept, a follow-up to the space agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.

NASA Shows Off SUV-Sized “Mars Chopper” With Six Rotor Blades

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX space tourist Jared Isaacman may soon have to go on a hiatus from his trips into orbit now that he's been named NASA administrator.

Trump’s New Billionaire Head of NASA Says He May Pause His Own Personal Vacations Into Space While Leading Agency

By Victor Tangermann

President-elect Donald Trump's pick for NASA administrator billionaire SpaceX tourist Jared Isaacman wants to send troops into space.

Trump’s New NASA Head Announces Plans to Send Troops to Space

By Victor Tangermann

Billionaire and SpaceX space tourist Jared Isaacman once offered to repair NASA's Hubble, but was shut down. Now, he's in charge of NASA.

The New Head of NASA Had an Interesting Disagreement with the Space Agency

By Victor Tangermann

If there's anything that can deliver us a sign of aliens, you'd put your money on it being the James Webb Space Telescope.

James Webb Space Telescope

Cornell Astronomer Hoping the James Webb Will Confirm Alien Life in 2025

By Frank Landymore

President-elect Donald Trump has named billionaire tech founder and SpaceX space tourist Jared Isaacman as the next NASA administrator.

Trump Names Billionaire Space Tourist as Head of NASA

By Victor Tangermann

A burst water pipe has wreaked havoc with data sent by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph spacecraft.

Flood Wreaks Havoc on NASA Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists have made a remarkable discovery while flying over the arctic ice in Greenland: an abandoned Cold War base.

NASA Scanners Detect Hidden Base Under Arctic Ice

By Victor Tangermann

NASA says that anyone who wants to know more about the smell on the ISS this weekend will have to speak to mother Russia.

NASA Says You Will Have to Ask the Russian Space Program About the Horrid Smell on the Space Station

By Ashley Bardhan

NASA Mars Rover Exploring Spiderweb-Like Patterns on Mars

NASA Mars Rover Exploring Spiderweb-Like Patterns on Mars

By Frank Landymore

Experts are alarmed by the prospect of the United States government gutting NASA under Donald Trump and Elon Musk's leadership.

Expert Warns That Elon Musk May Gut NASA

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's spacesuits, which astronauts are using to venture outside of the International Space Station, are really starting to show their age.

NASA Complains That Its Spacesuits Are a Decrepit Mess

By Victor Tangermann

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s.

Scientist Says NASA Lander May Have Accidentally Killed Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is in the middle of another health debacle after one of its astronauts hit back against rumors that she'd lost too much weight in space.

Stranded NASA Astronaut Hits Back Against Comments About Her Weight

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA is laying off hundreds of employees at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, in response to a lower budget.

NASA Is Laying Off Hundreds of Employees Again

By Frank Landymore

NASA's plagued Space Launch System rocket, which is being developed to deliver the first astronauts to the Moon, is on thin ice.

It Sounds Like NASA’s Moon Rocket Might Be Getting Canceled

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus messed with our understanding of the planet.

Wind Blowing Out of Uranus Makes It Hard to Probe, NASA Complains

By Victor Tangermann

The reasons behind a NASA astronaut's October hospitalization, along with three of their crew members, are still unclear.

NASA Still Trying to Figure Out Why Astronaut Was Hospitalized After Return to Earth

By Noor Al-Sibai

News outlets are reporting that a NASA astronaut is still hospitalized post-ISS trip — even though they were released 10 days ago.

News Outlets Are Falsely Reporting That a NASA Astronaut Is Still in the Hospital

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Orion spacecraft chipped after reentering the Earth's atmosphere during its maiden voyage. The agency remains tight lipped about it.

NASA Keeping Issue With Moon Rocket a Secret

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) is still spinning through space uncontrollably. One of its boom arms has a bend as well.

NASA Solar Sail Spacecraft Damaged, Spinning Through Space

By Victor Tangermann

There's an interesting reason that stars captured by the James Webb Space Telescope look so unique and spiky.

James Webb Space Telescope

Once You Notice This Weird Thing About James Webb Space Telescope Images, You Won’t Be Able to Unsee It

By Frank Landymore

According to its latest economic impact report, NASA generated over $75.6 billion in US economic output in 2023.

NASA Is Generating Far More Economic Growth Than Its Budget

By Frank Landymore

After landing back on Earth, a NASA astronaut was taken to the hospital for a health issue — and we still don't know who it was.

NASA Astronaut Hospitalized Immediately After Returning to Earth

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA head Bill Nelson told Semafor that the Wall Street Journal's report that Elon Musk was in cahoots with Putin should be investigated.

Head of NASA Not Happy That Elon Musk Has Been Secretly Taking Orders From Putin

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA observation satellite has spotted odd UFO-shaped cloud hovering above the Otago region in southeastern New Zealand.

NASA Satellite Inspects Strange-Looking Cloud That Always Forms in Same Spot

By Victor Tangermann

In a new study, NASA researchers are suggesting something radical: that Mars may be hosting life within its ice.

Life on Mars May be Trapped Under Ice, NASA Researchers Suggest

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA seems to be saying "Sayonara" to Boeing's accursed Starliner spacecraft — at least for the foreseeable future.

NASA Abandons Boeing’s Cursed Starliner for Upcoming Missions to the Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA contractor Axiom Space has shown off the latest design of its spacesuit designed to protect astronauts on the lunar surface.

NASA Contractor Shows Off New Spacesuit for the First Moon Landing in Over Half a Century

By Victor Tangermann

Europa Clipper, the NASA mission to explore Jupiter's fourth largest moon for signs of habitability, launched on Monday.

NASA and SpaceX Launch Mission to Potentially Habitable Moon

By Frank Landymore

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery for the first time of a galaxy growing from the "inside-out."

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Telescope Captures Spectacular Images of “Inside-Out” Galaxy Being Born

By Noor Al-Sibai

The James Webb Space Telescope was used to spot a new kind of alien planet: a watery "steam world" with an atmosphere of hot water vapor.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots First-Ever Alien “Steam World”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA is excited about SpaceX's fifth flight test of Starship, which could see the rocket pull off a fascinating landing procedure.

NASA Is Mega Hyped About SpaceX’s Imminent Starship Test Flight

By Frank Landymore

NASA Says It’s Totally Fine the Space Station is Absolutely Riddled With Cracks and Leaks

NASA Says It’s Totally Fine the Space Station is Absolutely Riddled With Cracks and Leaks

By Noor Al-Sibai

A core component of NASA's Gateway lunar space station just passed a grueling round of pressure tests, a big win for the project.

NASA’s Lunar Space Station Just Took a Massive Step Towards Launching

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA is planning on growing habitable structures out of fungus — also called mycotecture — for space colonies on the Moon and then Mars.

NASA Wants to Grow Trippy Houses Made Out of Mushrooms on the Moon

By Sharon Adarlo

In preparation for the first crewed Moon mission in 50 years, NASA is prototyping a new Moon rover that looks a lot like a tractor/golf cart.

NASA’s Lunar Rover Prototype Looks Like If a Tractor and a Golf Cart Had a Baby

By Noor Al-Sibai

The gas-spewing body spotted by the James Webb is a type of object known as a centaur that is somewhere between a comet and an asteroid.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Telescope Spots Bizarre Object That’s Spewing Out Jets of Gases

By Frank Landymore

Using readings from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected chemicals on the surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon.

James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Telescope Just Made a Fascinating Discovery About Pluto’s Huge Icy Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

As the US government works to get to the bottom of last summer's Titan submersible tragedy, NASA says it mostly wasn't the agency's fault.

NASA Insists It Didn’t Do Much Work on the Titanic Sub That Imploded, Killing Its Crew

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a new report, NASA is growing significantly concerned over cracks and leaks affecting the International Space Station.

NASA Inspector Issues Warning About Growing Cracks Leaking Air From Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who was supposed to return in June, is now assuming command of the International Space Station.

NASA Astronaut Stranded by Boeing Starliner Seizes Opportunity, Becomes Commander of Space Station

By Frank Landymore

NASA almost went all in on Boeing for its Commercial Crew program, choosing Starliner over SpaceX's far more successful Crew Dragon.

NASA Almost Gave All Its Crew Funding to Boeing’s Disastrous Starliner, Leaving SpaceX Out in the Cold

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has encountered a zebra-striped rock on the surface of Mars and it's unlike anything seen on the planet.

NASA Scientists Startled When Mars Rover Finds Rock With Stripes

By Sharon Adarlo

Axiom Space, the company NASA picked to develop a private space station, is in damage control after Forbes reported that it's in big trouble.

The Company Building NASA’s Next Space Station Says Things Are Actually Going Great Even Though It’s Firing 100 Employees and Can’t Pay Its Bills

By Victor Tangermann

Two advanced mannequins flew aboard the Artemis I mission to record data on radiation exposure inside the spacecraft.

NASA Analyzes Synthetic Human Bodies It Sent on Lunar Journey

By Frank Landymore

Ex-astronaut Mark Kelly insists that the US government should do more to investigate credible claims about UFOs.

Retired NASA Astronaut Urges Government to Investigate “Compelling” UFO Claims

By Noor Al-Sibai

Axiom Space, the space company NASA picked to develop a private successor to the International Space Station, is in big trouble.

The Company NASA’s Hired to Build the Next Space Station Seems to Be in Big Trouble, Firing 100 Employees and Unable to Pay Bills

By Victor Tangermann

The NASA Europa Clipper mission to explore one Jupiter's largest moons encountered a catastrophic hurdle at the last minute.

NASA Scientists “Howl in Terror” as They Discovered Disastrous Flaw in $5 Billion Spacecraft About to Launch

By Frank Landymore

A group of experts from the public and private sectors are warning that NASA's Earth-bound facilities are not at all up to snuff.

NASA Facilities Are Falling Apart, Experts Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Europa Clipper mission is set to explore one of the most promising spots to look for life in the solar system: Jupiter's moon Europa.

NASA Preparing to Launch Mission to World That “May Be Habitable Today”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA engineers have pulled off an incredible feat, switching the agency's ancient Voyager 1 probe to a different set of thrusters.

NASA Activates Ancient Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Most Distant Human Object in Existence

By Victor Tangermann