With more Moon missions on the horizon, avoiding crowding and collisions will be a growing challenge

The US doesn’t currently have much ability to monitor what’s going on in the space around the Moon. An effort by the Air ...
Space.com

NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say

The Senate's report supports Space.com's findings, stating, "as early as June 2025, NASA began 'implementing immediately' ...
Space.com

Did a NASA exoplanet-hunting balloon really 'crash' in Texas? Not according to the scientist behind the flight

A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting ...
Reuters

Former NASA nominee Jared Isaacman in talks to become agency's chief

Oct 14 - Jared Isaacman, the private astronaut and Elon Musk ally who was removed from consideration to lead NASA earlier this year, met with Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy last week as a ...
The Hill

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory laying off hundreds

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., said it’s laying off 550 employees Tuesday as “part of a reorganization that began in July and not related to the current government ...
Reuters

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

Oct 13 (Reuters) - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown. JPL is NASA's only ...

Space exploration in the backyard, on a budget – how NASA simulates conditions in space without blasting off

A planetary scientist who has participated in analog missions describes their value for planning space exploration – and ...
Cleveland.com

Cleveland to space: How NASA Glenn is advancing lunar and Mars exploration

NASA’s push to the moon, called Artemis, includes building a moon outpost as a base for exploration and to teach scientists how to live and work on another world, NASA said. The Artemis lunar plan ...
Ars Technica

One NASA science mission saved from Trump’s cuts, but others still in limbo

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of the Earth in 2029, reversing the Trump administration’s previous plan to ...
UPI

NASA equipment blown off course lands on West Texas farm

Oct. 14 (UPI) --A West Texas woman who spotted a large parachute in the sky discovered the object that landed on her family's farm was a piece of NASA equipment that had been blown off-course. Ann ...
CNN

NASA has a wild plan to return astronauts to the moon. Here’s why experts are starting to worry

Calls for the United States to return astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade have been increasingly loud and frequent, emanating from bipartisan lawmakers and science advocates alike. But ...
New York Post

A nor’easter is about to slam into NJ — and Gov. Murphy is thousands of miles away as emergency is declared

Outgoing Gov. Phil Murphy was not in New Jersey when a state of emergency was declared Saturday night, leaving Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way — now serving as acting governor — to make the declaration in his ...