Despite geopolitical tension and national budget woes, one message rang out loud and clear at Living Planet Symposium 2025: Earth science is a global mission. ESA has long fostered partnerships with NASA, JAXA, ISRO and many other space agencies and those collaborations continue to underpin the progress being made today.

In May, the White House released a budget proposal that would slash NASA funding. But a Senate appropriations plan would protect the agency's budget.

President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” could potentially increase NASA’s budget by billions of dollars.

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill adds $9.9 billion to NASA’s budget, reversing plans to cut the Space Launch System and Orion.

Budget would eliminate several projects that are hitting proposed targets or actively conducting valuable research.

Trump’s budget would cut NASA’s $7.33 billion science budget nearly in half. The administration’s argument is simple: NASA has too many science missions.

A new crew will soon be heading to the International Space Station. It comes at a time of upheaval at NASA, where the agency lacks a permanent administrator and has more cuts on the horizon.

NASA on Monday responded to questions from The Dominion Post about proposed budget cuts at the Katherine Johnson Independent Verification & Validation Facility in Fairmont — briefly explaining the "why " but not how it would be affected.

The brain drain comes as the White House's budget slashes the agency's Fiscal Year 2026 funding to about half of its previous $7.33 billion allocation. The cuts come as President Donald Trump has led a push to reduce the federal budget and shrink the government's workforce.

What does a country do when its top space agency loses its experts in science, suffers through the biggest budget reduction in decades, and is turned over to a political appointee with no experience in space?