20 March 2019
Webb telescope partly blamed for WFIRST funding cut
Calling President Donald Trump’s new U.S. budget proposal “bad news for science” with “cuts everywhere,” Princeton University astrophysicist David Spergel wrote March 19 on Twitter that he hopes “bipartisan support for basic research will again ...
18 December 2019
US Senate suggests Artemis delay after requested funding halved
In an effort to end the spending deadlock between US Democrats and Republicans in Congress, the House and Senate Appropriations Committees yesterday passed a number of bills increasing funding for a number of US agencies in FY 2020, one of which ...
05 October 2020
A dozen "superhabitable" planets better than Earth identified in new study
Earth, its a great planet and we love it, but there are better worlds out there say a team of reseachers who have identified 24 "superhabitable" exoplanets that are potentially better than our own. As a warm, temperate world at a favourable distance...
16 July 2021
NASA's $25 billion FY2022 funding bill is approved
The US House Appropriations Committee has today recommended a $25.04 billion spending bill to fund NASA through fiscal year 2022; this is an increase of $1.77 billion more than FY2021 and $240 million more than President Biden requested. The bill ...
11 March 2019
NASA outlines future Moon to Mars plans
At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine addressed the agency’s workforce to discuss where NASA is heading next, following the delivery of President Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget proposal to the U.S. ...
31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
After more than 16 years studying the universe in infrared light, revealing new wonders in our solar system, our galaxy and beyond, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope's mission has come to an end. Mission engineers confirmed at about 2:30 pm PDT (5:30 ...
