Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff

This week we're planning on opening doors on two of our four single-instrument spacecraft: the Narrow Field Imager (NFI) and one of the three Wide Field Imagers (WFIs). That's a big deal scientifica...

Rümeysa Öztürk's sworn statement was filed alongside a motion from her attorneys seeking her immediate release from detention while they fight the revocation of her visa.

“This would decimate American leadership in space.”…

Today we tested our X-band radios and they are working fine. That is a huge relief. We have two separate radios on each of four spacecraft: an S-band transmitter (2-4 GHz, roughly the same band as a...

A scientist and a cosmic cabbie land on common ground.

PUNCH will jointly observe the Sun with many other missions. Trajectories of the Solar Orbiter, Parker Solar Probe, BepiColombo, STEREO-A and JUICE and the 4 inner planets, spanning April 2025 through December 2029, show collaborative opportunities with PUNCH. There's also an animation (link to...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track the evolution of the solar wind in three dimensions.

YouTube video by NASA's Kennedy Space Center

The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude meth...

Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science

WASHINGTON—Addressing the ongoing outbreak in Texas that has infected at least 124 state residents and killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed Thursday to mak...

The president wants to create a revolution abroad. This Opinion columnist would love to see a plan.