Joel Achenbach

By blocking announcements in the Federal Register, the administration is keeping experts from meeting to evaluate funding proposals.

Another night of observations revealed there is little to fear from the football-field-sized Asteroid 2024 YR4.

Executive orders and feared budget cuts put the government space agency on uncertain footing.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

The 80-year-old partnership between the federal government and research institutions has made the U.S. the leader in scientific innovation. But now a proposed funding cut threatens the arrangement.

U.S. scientists, unaccustomed to shock-and-awe political assaults, are reeling from President Donald Trump’s executive orders on DEI, gender and other subjects.

National Science Foundation staff have been combing through thousands of active science research projects, alongside a list of keywords, to determine if they include activities that violate Trump’s executive orders.

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark energy.