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Religious Colleges Are Booming. Why?

Clark G. Gilbert is the former president of Brigham Young University-Idaho and its online-learning arm, BYU-Pathway Worldwide ...
Live Science

Artemis 2 mission update: Rollout imminent as NASA prepares first crewed Artemis mission to the moon

NASA's Artemis 2 rollout could be as early as this weekend as the space agency makes final preparations for its first crewed ...
Scientific American

Mars Sample That May Contain Evidence of Life Might Never Come Home

Update: A minibus spending package passed by the House of Representatives on January 8, 2026, effectively cancels the Mars Sample Return program by eliminating almost all funding for future missions.
AOL

NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission in Jeopardy as U.S. Considers Abandoning Retrieval

Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of hundreds of scientists back on Earth, the Perseverance rover has traveled ...
Wall Street Journal

Wealthy Families Are Writing Mission Statements to Avoid Fights, Lost Fortunes

Serial entrepreneur and investor James Harold Webb has done careful investment and estate planning to pass down his wealth to his five children, their three spouses, and six grandchildren. He also got ...
Inside Higher Ed

MIT Rejects Proposed Federal Compact

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has rejected the Trump administration’s proposal to sign on to the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which would mandate sweeping changes ...
The Debrief

Hayabusa2 Asteroid Sample-Return Mission’s Next Touchdown Just Got Complicated

The next leg of Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission is now facing an unexpected challenge: the asteroid it is targeting for its next visit, 1998 KY26, has turned out to be significantly smaller and rotating ...
Springfield News-Leader

Missouri State launches strategic plan to be 'institution of choice' for students, staff

Missouri State University has launched a new strategic plan called "Igniting Opportunity." It emphasizes integrating the university's public affairs mission across the curriculum. The university also ...
ucdavis.edu

Hayabusa-2 Sample Return Mission Suggests Protracted Wetter Asteroids

Asteroid Ryugu is a rubble pile of material from the formation of our Solar System. A new study of material returned by the Japanese Hayabusa-2 space probe shows that Ryugu, and likely objects like it ...
KGUN 9

New findings from UA’s asteroid sample mission

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — It’s been a real point of pride that the University of Arizona led a mission to grab a sample of an asteroid and bring it to Earth. Now those samples are teaching us more about ...
Inc

Why Rewriting Your Mission, Vision, and Values Is Just a Distraction

Let’s call it what it is: organizational theater. Enormous time and energy go into crafting the perfect string of aspirational words, but rarely are those words embedded into actual behaviors, ...
BGR

This Company Could Save NASA's Doomed Martian Sample Return Mission

Lockheed Martin is trying to position itself as a savior for many NASA missions currently facing the chopping block at the hands of the Trump administration. The administration has already detailed ...