NASA's Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request Documents Available for Download

NASA's Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request Documents Available for Download

These images show highlights from NASA's Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request Summary, focusing on NASA's science budget priorities with a heliophysics (studies of the Sun) text summary below. It is important to know that NASA's total Science budget has been reduced by nearly 50%. Moreover, NASA's Office of STEM Engagement is being shut down in this budget request to "save" $143 million dollars. This will affect NASA's work in public education.

Review NASA's Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request (PDF) Documents:

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Document List (6 total) as of May 30, 2025:

Fiscal Year 2026 Discretionary Budget Request

Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request Summary (28 pages) [Recommended reading: Source of these images]

Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Technical Supplement

Fiscal Year 2026 Agency Fact Sheet

Fiscal Year 2026 Mission Fact Sheets

NASA Heliophysics Budget Request Summary:

•$60M for Heliophysics research and analysis, to investigate the Sun and its influence on the entire solar system, studying solar processes, solar wind, magnetic fields, and interactions with Earth and other planets to understand how the Sun varies, how planetary environments respond, and how these processes affect human activities and technologies.

•$125M for the Heliophysics Explorer Program, including development of the MUSE mission, enabling competitive small and medium-class missions that complement strategic research with responsive, focused investigations.

•$55M, the highest amount ever proposed, for the Space Weather Program which plays a vital role in the national space weather enterprise by supporting space weather applied research and applications, enhancing understanding of orbital debris, advancing modeling capability to enable successful forecasting, and providing unique and useful observations to protect life on Earth and astronauts in space.

•$68M supports the Living With a Star program, including the Parker Solar Probe mission which has revolutionized our understanding of the corona and our knowledge of the origin and evolution of the solar wind; and Solar Dynamics Observatory, which gathers data to help explain the creation of solar activity, which drives space weather.

•$42M to support the IMAP and Carruthers missions, launching in FY 2026; IMAP will help researchers better understand the boundary of the heliosphere and Carruthers will study variability in Earth’s exosphere.

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Release Date: May 30, 2025

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