NASA's fiscal year 2024 budget is $24.875 billion, a 2% cut relative to 2023. NASA's troubled Mars Sample Return project was the flashpoint in the congressional budget process. It survived a ...

The Planetary Society maintains a comprehensive, open dataset that tracks NASA's annual budget requests, congressional appropriations, and final obligated expenditures from fiscal year (FY) 1959 to ...

For the first time in over a year, NASA's Perseverance rover has collected a sample on Mars. On Oct. 24, the rover drilled a ...

NASA expects to spend approximately $2.7 billion on the Perseverance rover project. This number can sound large, even excessive, to some—but it’s a number that demands context. Let’s give it some. The ...

The first mission to land on a moon of Mars could launch as soon as next week, carrying with it a dustbuster-like instrument that The Planetary Society helped develop. If all goes well, this tool will ...

Mars was once an Earth-like world. When life emerged on our watery planet sometime between 3.5 to 4 billion years ago, Mars was also home to lakes of liquid water and possibly flowing rivers. Combined ...

The print edition of this article was published under the title "Sky wanderers to dominant orbiters" The field of planetary science isn’t often plagued by drama, but there are occasional controversies ...

Phobos and Deimos are the two small, rocky moons that orbit Mars. Mars and Earth are the only rocky planets in the Solar System with moons. PlanetVac, a sample collection tool crowdfunded by The ...

Japan’s Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission aims to bring back the first-ever samples from Phobos, a moon of Mars, to explore what the Solar System was like shortly before life arose on Earth. MMX ...

Chandrayaan-1 was India’s first mission to another world. The orbiter discovered water on the Moon. Technologies developed for Chandrayaan-1 helped kickstart India's planetary science program. On ...

Below is a list of selected NASA science missions facing severe budget cuts or termination in the upcoming fiscal year. These proposals are from the White House and are not supported by Congress, ...

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