In his first public remarks, Bhattacharya emphasizes his overall support for agency

SAN FRANCISCO – A White House budget proposal calls for replacing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s future geostationary satellite constellation, GeoXO, with a far less expensive and ambitious program. […]

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The rare sighting of a living juvenile colossal squid has scientists stunned and thrilled.

Learn about the role of olfaction in friendship, which indicates that finding a friend is, at least in some sense, related to smell.

The young used to report high happiness levels that declined into middle age before increasing into and throughout retirement. Now those levels are changing.

After years of frustration, researchers learn how to sharpen molecular images with liquid helium

Agency targets programs that award up to $40 million annually

Learn more about the uptick in psilocybin use, particularly in younger and older adults in the U.S.

Learn how the brain operates differently in a variety of states of consciousness, which could provide a variety of therapeutic benefits.

DARPA is seeking proposals for a small lunar orbiter that could be used to test operations in very low orbits while prospecting for water ice.

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Discover more ways to keep your body and mind healthy and strong against dementia.

Imagine you’re on the moon, digging up lunar regolith. You’re focused on the task at hand when you suddenly slip and fall, right into your pickaxe. Even in the moon’s […]

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The Russia-Ukraine war is arguably the first commercial space war on account of its use of private companies’ imagery for tracking and targeting. The conflict has demonstrated the advantage of […]

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SpaceX launched a Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station April 21 whose cargo includes more crew supplies and fewer science experiments than usual.

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Chinese startup InfinAstro has secured early funding for its plan to fill a gap in China’s commercial on-orbit services.

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The NROL-145 mission lifted off Sunday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 8:29 a.m. Eastern.

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By understanding the churning region near singularities, physicists hope they might be able to reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics.

China sent six experimental Shiyan series satellites into orbit late Friday Eastern, using its Long March 6A rocket launched from Taiyuan.

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Learn why some dinosaurs had air sacs in their vertebrae and how it relates to modern day birds.

Some $380 million is now in limbo after reductions in the federal workforce affected staff that run a program helping low-income people pay their energy bills.

A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain receives.

More states are lining up in a bid to host NASA’s headquarters, but the prize they seek may turn out to be smaller than they expect.

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Attracting women and minorities into science and studying misinformation are no longer priorities, agency says

Plan to eliminate $307 million ecosystem program could face obstacles in Congress

International networks told not to start new studies or enroll new trial participants in the country

New analysis of ancient DNA has been overshadowed by the controversy over de-extinction and genetically edited gray wolf pups

Move follows broader White House attack on Harvard funding and stop-work orders to contractors

Budget plan would kill two CDC journals, while U.S. prosecutor accuses some nongovernmental publications of being “partisans”

Technical problems and budget squeeze combine to derail $92 million phased array

The resource is an expansion of the agency’s efforts to address harassment in the U.S. Antarctic Program

Learn more about who Suni Williams is and what her contributions have looked like throughout her career in space.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will have to recover from their time in space. Learn more about what happens to the human body when they live in microgravity for months.

La nacionalidad Shuar del Amazonas colabora con científicos para autentificar cabezas reducidas, o tsantsas, y algún día repatriarlas a casa

Lapse may be temporary, but draft budget plans would eliminate service

Novel computer analysis of records ascribed to legendary Chinese astrologer dates them to nearly 2400 years ago

Instability, cuts, and a looming sense of dread have FEMA employees unsure the agency is ready for hurricanes, fires, and floods. “We are being set up for a really, really bad situation," says one.

Learn more about Thorin the Neanderthal, one of the last remaining specimens of ancient humans to be found in Eurasia.

Learn more about the Middle Island Sinkhole, an under water sinkhole with no oxygen.

In the Senate hearing considering the confirmation of Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator, he and Senator Ted Cruz engaged in extensive dialogue about China. They strongly expressed the view that […]

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Learn how following a plant-based diet could help you live longer.