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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson defended the agency’s plans to reduce or cancel some agency programs at a House hearing, assigning much of the blame to Congress.

Astronomers are resisting NASA's plans to reduce the budgets of two well-established space telescopes, arguing that the cuts to one of them could endanger the future of X-ray astronomy in the United States.

NASA states that its fiscal year 2025 budget proposal is limited by the second year of a debt-ceiling agreement that places a cap on overall spending, resulting in delays, potential cancellations, and broader uncertainty for many NASA science programs.