Exclusive: Harvard geneticist George Church knew more about Jeffrey Epstein's activities than he has previously said, before ...

NASA excels at bold projects. Consider the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is rewriting cosmology and revealing profound insights into stellar evolution, along with precious views of our own ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off hundreds of employees Wednesday in anticipation of massive funding cuts in the federal budget. Despite pleas to NASA and the White House from California ...

After months of turmoil over the future of a vaunted mission to bring samples of the Red Planet back to Earth, NASA has its verdict on Mars Sample Return. The space agency is “committed” to bringing ...

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Update: A minibus spending package passed by the House of Representatives on January 8, 2026, effectively cancels the Mars Sample Return program by eliminating almost all funding for future missions.

Universities Space Research Association (USRA), a nonprofit organization focused on space science and technology, is proud to announce that it has received an award valued at $13 million spanning a ...

A “selfie” taken by the Perseverance Mars rover as it examines Cheyava Falls, an arrowhead-shaped rock in the center that contains potential biosignatures of past Martian life. Credit: ...

During his final months as the chief of NASA’s science programs last year, there was one mission Thomas Zurbuchen fretted about more than any other—the agency’s ambitious plan to return rocks from ...

In its first-ever citizen science project, The Times is encouraging readers to go birding and help researchers gather data on the avian world. By Alan Burdick and Elaine Chen Alan Burdick is an editor ...

The Center for Scientific Integrity — the non-profit organization that runs Retraction Watch — has launched a project aimed at rounding up flawed and fake medical-research papers and neutralizing ...