Last year President Trump pitched a severe chop to NASA’s proposed annual budget for 2026, but the House and Senate on Monday ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return program faces opposition from planetary scientists following proposed cancellation, with concerns raised over Perseverance samples, future Mars missions, and international ...

NASA received 48 responses to its April 16-May 17 solicitation for alternative ideas to bring samples collected by the Perseverance Mars rover back to Earth, the agency said May 29. NASA is looking ...

House and Senate appropriators have released the text of a spending bill that largely rejects the steep cuts the Trump administration proposed for NASA.

It turns out the space industry has a lot of ideas on how to improve NASA’s $11 billion, 15-year plan to collect and return samples from Mars. Seven of these proposals have caught the agency’s ...

The topline budget included in the draft bill from the House Appropriations Committee would give the agency $303.6 million more than it received in fiscal 2024. The House unveiled its $25.2 billion ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told House appropriators April 17 NASA had to make "very tough choices" to cut or cancel programs because of budget caps enacted by Congress. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky ...

The White House budget proposal aims to discontinue NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) after three missions due to cost overruns. NASA's overall budget, including science programs, faces cuts, with the ...

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After months of turmoil over the future of a vaunted mission to bring samples of the Red Planet back to Earth, NASA has its verdict on Mars Sample Return. The space agency is “committed” to bringing ...