NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a 21-year-old space telescope that has tracked gamma-ray bursts and cosmic explosions since 2004, is losing altitude fast enough that the agency has suspended most of its science work and hired a private company to attempt an emergency orbit boost.

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.

NASA is just hours away from its first crewed launch of 2026, and its first since Crew-11 flew to orbit in August last year. Just ahead of Crew-12’s liftoff, the space agency has released a short trailer (above) for the mission,

NASA has selected two Earth science missions for development, one focused on studying the atmosphere and the other on terrestrial ecosystems and ice.

Organic compounds found in Mars rocks are too abundant to rule out the possibility of Martian life in the red planet’s history, NASA scientists say. In March of 2025, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered oily chemicals on Mars.

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NASA Used AI to Drive Its Perseverance Mars Rover for the First Time

NASA’s Perseverance rover has just made history by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence instead of human operators. A vision-capable AI analyzed the same images and terrain data normally used by rover planners,

Bill Nye let a packed crowd at the Orange Convention Center know that it’s not a good idea to send a human on a one-way trip to Mars. “Although there’s a few I wouldn’t mind,” he said earning another chuckle during his hour-long,

Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) measures wind speeds over Earth's oceans with seven microsatellites. Credit: NASA Langley video capture SAN FRANCISCO – NASA’s Earth Science Division is exploring partnerships with external ...

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).