Blue Origin wins NASA deal to ferry VIPER rover to lunar south pole
NASA’s water-ice prospecting mission is getting a second life with Blue Origin.
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NASA found clues of life on Mars, but budget cuts threaten future missions
An exciting discovery on Mars is being overshadowed by turmoil at NASA, with budget cuts threatening to destroy a scientific legacy that has been built over decades. Yesterday, the agency shared a finding, published in Nature, of potential biosignatures identified by the Mars Perseverance rover in a 3.5 billion-year-old rock. “This very well could be […]
NASA has sparked a race to develop the data pipeline to Mars
SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Rocket Lab are competing to become the de facto comms provider for Mars.
Trump taps transportation secretary Sean Duffy as acting NASA chief
President Donald Trump appointed Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy to lead NASA.
Congress just greenlit a NASA moon plan opposed by Musk and Isaacman
The $10 billion addition to the Artemis architecture, which includes funding for additional Space Launch System rockets and an orbiting station around the moon called Gateway, is a rebuke to critics who wished to see alternative technologies used instead.
Netflix teams up with NASA to boost its live TV offering
Netflix and NASA announced a new partnership that will bring live space programming to the streaming service later this summer.
Trump pulls Musk ally’s NASA Administrator nomination
Just one day after Elon Musk’s public departure from his role as a White House employee, the Trump Administration pulled its nomination of Musk ally Jared Isaacman to become the new NASA Administrator. First reported earlier on Saturday by Semafor, citing anonymous sources, the move has been confirmed by White House spokesperson Liz Huston. The […]