NASA's Crew-11 started a return journey to Earth on Wednesday, cutting short their six-month stint in space after an unknown crew member suffered an undisclosed medical condition.

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples already collected on the red planet.

A viral TikTok rumour claims Earth will lose gravity in 2026, but community notes and science show it is false.

Astronomers discovered a "quasi-satellite" of Earth, also known as a "quasi-moon," dubbed 2025 PN7 in 2025. NASA told Snopes that 2025 PN7 has been in its current configuration "since at least the past 70 years and will remain so for another 60 years.

NASA said that by migrating the archives to the cloud, it will place NASA Earth observation data “close to compute,” and enable more efficient access to data. According to the agency, the DAACs will "continue to serve as the gateways to EOSDIS data holdings and provide a wide range of support services for users."

It looks like NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has come to a bureaucratic end. The mission was to be the crowning achievement in the study of Mars and all the questions surrounding its ancient habitability. But the US Congress has drastically cut the mission's funding, effectively canceling the mission as it was intended.

NASA lost contact with the MAVEN probe in Mars orbit, and teams are working to reestablish communications after an unexpected anomaly.