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NASA cut $420 million for climate science, moon modelling and more
Under pressure from Elon Musk’s DOGE task force, NASA is cancelling grants and contracts for everything from lunar dust ...
A mission that could reach Mercury on solar sails alone
Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing ...
White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent
Multiple people familiar with the White House proposal said cuts to NASA's "Science Mission Directorate" could be as high as 50 percent. These sources emphasized that no decisions are final, and there ...
How to see a partial solar eclipse turn the sun into a crescent
A partial solar eclipse on Saturday will make it look as if the moon has taken a bite out of the sun over parts of North ...
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NASA hails Blue Ghost 1 mission as “proof positive” of CLPS program
At a NASA town hall meeting during this week’s Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference, agency officials hailed the success of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost 1 lander, which touched down on ...
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Lunar polar regions could have microbes, modeling study suggests
This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC 2025) hopes to address as a team of researchers from the United States and Canada investigated the ...