The New York Times

The First Soda in Space: When NASA Got Caught Up in the Cola Wars

In the summer of 1985, NASA, the Reagan White House and seven talented astronauts were wrangled into an orbital battle over soft-drink supremacy. In the summer of 1985, NASA, the Reagan White House ...
Ars Technica

NASA is kind of a mess: Here are the top priorities for a new administrator

After a long summer and fall of uncertainty, private astronaut Jared Isaacman has been renominated to lead NASA, and there appears to be momentum behind getting him confirmed quickly as the space ...
CNN

NASA has a wild plan to return astronauts to the moon. Here’s why experts are starting to worry

Calls for the United States to return astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade have been increasingly loud and frequent, emanating from bipartisan lawmakers and science advocates alike. But ...
CNN

Inside NASA’s scramble to find a backup moon plan — and the wild ideas companies are pitching

A suggestion made last week by acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy that SpaceX could be booted from the agency’s upcoming moon-landing plans has rocked the space industry. Now, behind the scenes, ...
NPR

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose

The Trump administration has asked NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellite missions, according to current and former NASA staffers. If the plans are carried out, one of the ...
The Atlantic

How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline

In the beginning, there was the name. A prophet guided Errol Musk to bestow it on his eldest son, or so he claimed. The seer was Wernher von Braun, a German engineer and an inspiration for Stanley ...
Space.com

'We have to fully fund NASA': Lawmaker joins space agency employees in protest outside DC headquarters

Chants of "Save NASA!" echoed through downtown Washington, D.C., Monday(Sept. 15) as agency workers and supporters rallied outside NASA headquarters. Carrying signs and repeating calls, protestors ...
Live Science

$20 million NASA mission to visit 'God of Chaos' asteroid saved from budget cuts in last-minute decision

NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission, which was one of 19 designated to be canceled by the Trump administration, has been saved from the chopping block in a last-minute decision. There will be a significant ...
Space.com

NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's flagship center for space science is under attack from within, and some of the biggest ...
The Washington Post

NASA has lost thousands of workers. Here’s what that means for science.

For 13 consecutive years, NASA has been named the “Best Place to Work in the Federal Government” among large agencies. But since the Trump administration took over and proposed deep budget cuts, there ...
Ars Technica

5 things in Trump’s budget that won’t make NASA great again

If signed into law as written, the White House’s proposal to slash nearly 25 percent from NASA’s budget would have some dire consequences. It would cut the agency’s budget from $24.8 billion to $18.8 ...