The Space Review

3 weeks ago | thespacereview.com | Jeff Foust

Jared Isaacman was days away from being confirmed as NASA administrator, and taking on the largest budget cuts in the agency’s history, when the White House pulled his nomination May 31. (credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)At the end of last week, the space community was gearing up for more bad news. While there was no formal announcement, NASA was widely expected to release more details about its fiscal year 2026 budget proposal.

1 month ago | thespacereview.com | Jeff Foust

From the Laboratory to the Moon: The Quiet Genius of George R. Carruthersby David H. DeVorkinThe MIT Press, 2025paperback, 456 pp., illus. ISBN 978-0-262-55139-7US$75.00Some time this fall, a Falcon 9 will launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center carrying three heliophysics spacecraft for NASA and NOAA.

1 month ago | thespacereview.com | Jeff Foust

NASA’s NEO Surveyor mission is set to launch as soon as the fall of 2027 to search for near Earth asteroids. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)It says something about the state of the world that, for a brief time earlier this year, the prospect of death from the skies was a welcomed distraction. In January, observations of the near Earth asteroid 2024 YR4, discovered near the end of last year, showed a small chance that it would hit the Earth in December 2032.

1 month ago | thespacereview.com | Jeff Foust

Extraterrestrial Life: We Are Not Aloneby Antonino Del PopoloSpringer, 2025paperback, 156 pp., illus. ISBN 978-3-031-83496-7US$37.99It’s a familiar trajectory for astrobiology stories. Scientists announce the discovery of a biosignature, or at least a potential biosignature, on another world in our solar system or beyond. The announcement is made at a conference, or in a paper provided to media under embargo, resulting in a surge of stories touting the discovery.

1 month ago | thespacereview.com | Jeff Foust

The White House's 2026 budget proposal would cancel the lunar Gateway, a NASA-led program with contributions from Canada, Europe, Japan and the UAE. (credit: NASA)Even if you know the axe is falling, it doesn’t make it any less painful. It was clear for weeks that the White House would propose major cuts to NASA in its fiscal year 2026 budget request.