Los Angeles Times

Budget cuts to Mars Sample Return mission prompt hundreds of layoffs at JPL

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off hundreds of employees Wednesday in anticipation of massive funding cuts in the federal budget. Despite pleas to NASA and the White House from California ...
SpaceNews

Universities Space Research Association Wins Award from NASA to Advance Sample Science Research

Universities Space Research Association (USRA), a nonprofit organization focused on space science and technology, is proud to announce that it has received an award valued at $13 million spanning a ...
Scientific American

The Mars Sample Return Mission Is at a Dangerous Crossroads

NASA excels at bold projects. Consider the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is rewriting cosmology and revealing profound insights into stellar evolution, along with precious views of our own ...
Nature

Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’

The Center for Scientific Integrity — the non-profit organization that runs Retraction Watch — has launched a project aimed at rounding up flawed and fake medical-research papers and neutralizing ...
Ars Technica

NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag—and it’s colossal

During his final months as the chief of NASA’s science programs last year, there was one mission Thomas Zurbuchen fretted about more than any other—the agency’s ambitious plan to return rocks from ...
Los Angeles Times

Too expensive, too slow: NASA asks for help with JPL’s Mars Sample Return mission

After months of turmoil over the future of a vaunted mission to bring samples of the Red Planet back to Earth, NASA has its verdict on Mars Sample Return. The space agency is “committed” to bringing ...