NASA associate administrator Amit Kshatriya and associate administrator of NASA Science Dr. Nicky Fox explain that "all evidence points" that is an interstellar comet and reveal a new image from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

Officials have directed the space agency to pause funds for a host of science missions the White House originally pushed to cancel in its 2026 budget request, according to a letter sent to the agency’s centers from NASA headquarters and obtained by POLITICO.

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) instructed NASA to temporarily pause funding for a number of science missions. The move aligns with the White House’s proposed cuts for NASA’s 2026 budget, which were later restored by Congress.

Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic radiation.

A small but mighty piece of lab equipment, about the size of a cellphone, has arrived at the International Space Station after launching with NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission. NASA aims to use the off-the-shelf device,

A NASA planetary expert has revealed that humankind has no way to protect against a city-killer asteroid if it were to head towards Earth.

NASA has pulled off a high-flying aurora investigation, launching three rockets into the glowing northern lights over Alaska. One mission targeted mysterious dark patches called black auroras, while the twin GNEISS rockets created a 3D scan of the aurora’s electrical currents.

NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory would be terminated in the agency's fiscal year 2026 budget request. Credit: NASA/CXC & J. Vaughan Updated 8 p.m. Eastern with AIA comment. REYKJAVÍK, Iceland — NASA released more information about its proposed fiscal ...

Although the Trump administration will not publicly release its budget request for at least a few more weeks, senior agency officials are starting to be briefed on the president’s priorities. This includes NASA. As expected, the president’s plan for ...

Withholding congressionally appropriated NASA science funds signals a broader crisis of democratic governance, not just

NASA’s Curiosity has explored a peculiar terrain on Mars that has no such equivalent on Earth. Seen from space, this geological formation, called boxwork, looks like a spiderweb crisscrossing the terrain around Mount Sharp.