NSF board approves funding for just one of two proposed giant telescopes

ESA awards €1.3M in co-funding to PLD for Miura 5 payload adapter

Solar Geoengineering Looks to Silicon Valley for New Wave of Funding

NASA just announced funding for 13 new "Innovative Advanced Concepts" under the NIAC program. They include a swarm of autonomous "gram-scale interstellar probes" designed to send back images of Proxima Centauri, and a sample return mission to Venus.