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NASA's super pressure balloon successfully made lapse over New Zealand

NASA’s second super-pressure balloon floated over the country’s North Island by following its wind pattern before moving away.
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NASA’s billion-dollar Mars sample mission faces a setback as Trump signals intent to cut funding

The samples from the Martian surface, collected after spending billions of dollars, might have to be left behind.
1 day ago

NASA struggles to reduce activity on the International Space Station after massive budget cut

The reductions on the ISS will span across the experiments being conducted onboard and the number of crew members operating in space.
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NASA's Nighthawk: A new chapter in the Mars helicopter mission that will scan for proof of life

The proposal of the Nighthawk is a bigger step in the Mars helicopter mission to search for water and life in a volcanic canyon network.
4 days ago

Soviet Spacecraft failed to land on Venus and is plummeting back to Earth after 53 years

The Soviet Union's Kosmos 482 had a rocket-assisted toss, leaving a major payload in orbit that will have an uncontrolled reentry.
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Scientists track falling spacecraft to measure how satellite air pollution affects Earth's atmosphere

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Elon Musk confirms availability of SpaceX's satellite system Starlink in Congo

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confirmed Starlink's availability in Congo, a big win that adds up to almost half of Africa’s countries using the provider.
May 6, 2025

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Astronomers describe a fracture they discovered in the Milky Way galaxy with the assistance of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope.
May 6, 2025

Elon Musk's SpaceX outpost, Starbase, officially becomes a new city in Texas

SpaceX employees, who mainly occupy the town, voted in favor of Starbase becoming a city.
May 6, 2025

Trump's 2026 budget proposes a 24% reduction in NASA’s space exploration funding

President Trump’s ‘skinny’ budget may hinder various ongoing and future space missions.
May 5, 2025

Trump's 2026 budget reimagines NASA's Artemis, hands moon missions to private sector

The proposal puts forth a ‘sustainable’ budget that shuts down the Gateway moon-orbiting space station and halts SLS and Orion.
May 5, 2025

NASA's astrophysics mission gets delayed amidst significant budget cuts, with new dates in 2026

NASA stated that the call for research proposals for the next Small Explorer (SMEX) mission would be postponed until April 2026.
May 5, 2025

NASA is sending astronauts around the Moon sooner than expected — first time in over 50 years

The Artemis 2 mission will be NASA’s return to the surface of the moon with the first crewed lunar flyby of the Orion spacecraft.
May 4, 2025

NASA conducts fifth all-female spacewalk in latest milestone outside the ISS

Astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers step out in space to shift an antenna and prepare the space station for a new set of solar arrays.
May 3, 2025