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Trump’s 2026 Budget Proposes One-Third Cut to NASA Workforce, Stuns International Partners

President Trump’s FY2026 budget blueprint calls for cutting nearly a third of NASA’s workforce before Congress enacts a spending plan, sowing uncertainty over core science and exploration programs and prompting ESA to scramble for mitigation strategies on joint missions like Sentinel-6C.

2025-06-17T05:14:55.758418-07:00

SpaceNews.com

Private Axiom-4 ISS Flight Now Targeting June 19 After Leak Repairs

2025-06-15T02:15:05.095355-07:00

CNBC

Musk retreats on Dragon decommission threat after spat with Trump

2025-06-05T13:30:00.315979-07:00

New York Times

Solar Orbiter Delivers First-Ever Views of Sun’s Poles

2025-06-11T07:11:04.871063-07:00

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JWST Spots Planet Formation in Space's Most Extreme Environments NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected planets forming in environments once thought too extreme for planet assembly. These observations expand known planetary nurseries beyond traditional protoplanetary disks, widening the search for habitable worlds and prompting revisions to models of exoplanet formation.

2025-06-20T03:08:03.028354-07:00

JWST Spots Planet Formation in Space's Most Extreme Environments

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NASA, DoD Rehearse Artemis 2 Abort Recovery Procedures NASA and the Department of Defense conducted a full-scale dress rehearsal for abort recovery operations in preparation for Artemis 2, the agency’s first crewed lunar flyby in over five decades. The exercise validated procedures for Orion capsule and crew retrieval in the event of an in-flight abort.

2025-06-19T09:03:01.317578-07:00

NASA, DoD Rehearse Artemis 2 Abort Recovery Procedures

Space.com

JWST reveals dwarf galaxies drove universe’s exit from Dark Ages New observations from JWST detect a population of faint dwarf galaxies at high redshift whose intense star formation and UV output could have driven hydrogen reionization, lifting the universe out of its Dark Ages. These small galaxies punch well above their weight in shaping early cosmic evolution.

2025-06-19T07:03:29.624547-07:00

JWST reveals dwarf galaxies drove universe’s exit from Dark Ages

Aviation Week

NASA Emphasizes X-59's Role as FAA Moves to Lift Supersonic Ban at Paris Air Show At the Paris Air Show, NASA’s acting administrator emphasized that the X-59 low-boom demonstrator remains central to validating noise signatures and informing sonic boom regulations, even as the FAA prepares to lift its 52-year ban on supersonic overland flights.

2025-06-18T01:04:15.708338-07:00

NASA Emphasizes X-59's Role as FAA Moves to Lift Supersonic Ban at Paris Air Show

Ars Technica

Tam O’Shaughnessy Reveals Untold Chapters in Sally Ride’s Legacy as First US Woman in Space For the first time, Tam O’Shaughnessy, Sally Ride’s life partner, offers a comprehensive account of the astronaut’s 1983 shuttle missions, her scientific contributions at NASA and the untold personal struggles shaping her public legacy. The memoir deepens our understanding of Ride’s pioneering role as the first US woman in orbit.

2025-06-17T10:55:19.163852-07:00

Tam O’Shaughnessy Reveals Untold Chapters in Sally Ride’s Legacy as First US Woman in Space

NASA

NASA and DLR Sign Pact to Deepen Artemis Lunar Collaboration at Paris Air Show At the Paris Air Show on June 16, NASA acting administrator Janet Petro and Germany’s DLR head formalized a memorandum to expand joint contributions to the Artemis program, covering lunar lander technology, habitat development and science payload integration.

2025-06-17T07:27:29.343266-07:00

NASA and DLR Sign Pact to Deepen Artemis Lunar Collaboration at Paris Air Show

Space.com

Roman Space Telescope to Map 160,000+ Gravitational Lenses for Dark Matter Study The NASA Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, due to begin science operations in 2027, will map more than 160,000 gravitational lenses—cosmic alignments where foreground galaxies bend background light—to investigate the particle nature of dark matter using Einstein’s century-old lensing concept.

2025-06-17T07:12:06.884476-07:00

Roman Space Telescope to Map 160,000+ Gravitational Lenses for Dark Matter Study

The Atlantic

NASA Redefines Astronaut Role, Eyes Explorers for Mars NASA is overhauling its astronaut selection criteria as it prepares for eventual crewed Mars missions, including the potential recruitment of professional explorers with expedition experience. The agency believes that traditional pilot-heavy crews may lack the specialized skills needed for autonomous, long‐duration surface operations on the Red Planet.

2025-06-17T05:15:01.175290-07:00

NASA Redefines Astronaut Role, Eyes Explorers for Mars

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