The budget proposes a $6 billion cut to the agency, 24% less than NASA’s current $24.8 billion budget for 2025.

At the 246th American Astronomical Society meeting in Alaska last month, scientists discussed how Trump's budget cuts could affect operations for the Hubble Space Telescope and JWST.

NASA faces a proposed $6 billion agency-wide funding cut by the Trump administration, including a 47% reduction of science missions and activities.

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The president’s proposed budget for 2026 cuts the agency by nearly 25 percent. That would be the largest single-year cut in NASA’s history, taking it back to a level last seen in 1961.

"Honestly, it's been a little devastating," Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, a scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology, told Space.com. "NASA always has a ...

NASA’s 2026 budget proposal includes a 47 percent cut to its science division. A planned June 12 public meeting has been postponed pending internal briefings.

The cuts, Dreier says, reduce NASA’s budget to less than it has been, accounting for inflation, since the earliest days of Project Mercury in the early 1960s.

The budget request slashes NASA total funding by nearly 25%—from $24.9 billion to $18.8 billion. Most of the cuts are made by eliminating a significant portion of the agency's science programs.

Missions could slip ‘well into the 2030s’ ESA said at a press conference last week that 19 of its research projects might be impacted by the proposed NASA budget cuts.

Current and former NASA employees have co-signed a declaration protesting changes at the agency that some say pose a grave ...