Chandra spotted a 300,000-light-year jet from a distant quasar. But amid this breakthrough, the telescope now faces defunding, threatening the future of U.S. X-ray astronomy.

Inflation and budget issues are threatening to hobble NASA’s most in-demand telescopes.

Like all sponsors of science programs, NASA has had its ups and downs. What makes it unique is that its achievements and failures almost always happen in public.

Jacque Schrag/Axios NASA spends an average of $3 billion annually in California on scientific missions — the highest of any state, per data from The Planetary Society, a pro-space nonprofit. Why it ...

NASA’s 2026 budget proposal includes a 47 percent cut to its science division. A planned June 12 public meeting has been ...

The Trump administration's budget proposal calls for the number of full-time employees at NASA Glenn to be reduced from nearly 1,400 to 837 for fiscal year 2026.

This is the extinction-level event we were warning people about,” said Casey Dreier, the chief of space policy at The ...

NASA’s car-sized Perseverance rover has been roaming the surface of Mars for four years, drilling into the alien soil to ...

Large cuts to government-funded research and development can endanger American innovation—and the vital productivity gains it ...

Gravitational wave observatory LISA, Venus orbiter EnVision, and the largest X-ray observatory ever planned, NewAthena, will ...

The universe will still be there to marvel at, despite brutal cuts set to hit NASA and the National Science Foundation's ...