Where would NASA funding be cut? Under the budget plan, overall NASA funding would drop to about $20 billion, down from $24.9 billion in fiscal year 2024, a loss of about 20%.

The approximate 20 percent budget cut could force the closure of the Goddard Space Flight Center and would see projects such as the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope scrapped.

The Trump administration proposed its spending budget for the 2026 fiscal year, including a series of cuts aimed at NASA. If approved, the agency would face a reduction of just over 24 percent to ...

Historically, NASA’s peak funding year was 1966, when the agency was allotted $5.93 billion—or $58.5 billion in 2025 dollars. That represented 4% of the government’s overall budget.

That summary did not include a full breakout of funding for the agency in the bill, but it noted that NASA’s exploration programs would get $7.74 billion, less than the $7.97 billion requested ...

In any case, NASA's budget for fiscal year 2024 came to $24.9 billion. This represents an approximately 2 percent cut in the space agency's funding relative to the final budget for fiscal year 2023.

President Donald Trump unveiled a budget blueprint last week that includes roughly $6 billion in federal funding cuts to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Despite the ...

Yet with the Trump administration reportedly proposing steep budget cuts at NASA and other federal agencies, programs like FireSense could be in jeopardy — all while fire season is ramping up ...

A NASA committee concluded there is no way to continue operating the Chandra X-ray Observatory with NASA’s proposed budget cuts in 2025.

Federal budget cuts have hit NASA hard. As a result, the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has reportedly laid off 100 contractors last week, the LA Times reports, potentially forcing it to ...

More than 200 NASA employees sign letter opposing Trump budget cuts: Here's what it said The letter, which was made public Monday, July 21, was released at a time that NASA faces a historically ...

The bad part in Trump’s budget is the near total evisceration of NASA’s science programs, both on Earth and in space. The budget proposal slashes $1.3 billion from Earth science and $2.3 ...