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NASA engineers finished a final inspection of the Roman Space Telescope’s primary mirror and are now packing the observatory for Kennedy

Engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center completed the final inspection of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s 2.4 ...

NASA Finally Admits Its MAVEN Mars Orbiter Is Dead

MAVEN was technically supposed to last a mere two years, with its initial operations planned to end in 2015. But it ended up ...

After 11 years at Mars, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft went out with a whisper

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft was in excellent shape when it disappeared behind Mars on December 6 of last year. The routine ...

NASA’s $4 Billion Roman Space Telescope Heads To Florida For Launch

NASA’s next great space telescope will see 100 times more sky than Hubble. It’s about to arrive in Florida for launch in ...
Morning Overview on MSN

NASA set the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch for August 30, pulling the date forward from early September

NASA has pulled the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch target forward to August 30, 2026, shaving roughly a week off ...

Competition to run JPL comes at fraught moment of federal budget cuts, project overruns, management missteps

A competitive contract isn't necessarily a bad thing, experts say. But the administration's anti-science record raises ...
CNN

A plan written by Trump’s NASA pick was leaked. Here’s what to know about ‘Project Athena’

A 62-page document written by President Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again pick to run NASA, billionaire Jared Isaacman, outlines a sweeping, ambitious, and at times controversial plan for the space ...
The New York Times

NASA Says Goodbye to Its Longtime Mars Orbiter

The space agency announced that the MAVEN spacecraft, which has circled Mars for more than a decade, is being decommissioned. By Katrina Miller On Wednesday, NASA announced the end of a more than ...