NASA is shutting down some official social media accounts, including the Curiosity rover’s handle

NASA is close Several social media accounts managed by the Directorate of the Scientific Mission, including the Official Account of Mars Curiosity Rover on X. The organization says that it has made the decision in order to “make its work more accessible to the public, avoiding the potential for sunsaturation or confusion”.

The “social media consolidation project” is partly concentrated on X, where there are dozens of accounts from NASA affiliated with specific missions and areas of research. So far 29 accounts are archived or consolidated with other accounts, in particular @Marscuriousity And @NasapeSevereThe two explain the Rovers of March of the organization. Messages on the two missions will now come from the most general @Nasamars. Some social media accounts “renown to better align with the new strategic framework”, says NASA, “reflecting a broader range or a more direct link with basic NASA initiatives”.

With “more than 400 individual accounts on 15 platforms”, it is not exactly unreasonable that NASA tries to rationalize things, but there is a very appreciated specificity when the news and the information comes from a more general account. The curiosity of NASA is appreciated and the agency’s research on Mars was probably better known because the social media account facilitated identification with the rover.

Beyond social media accounts, NASA could go to next year with much less resources in general. Trump administration Budget offered in 2026 Includes about a reduction of $ 6 billion to financing NASA. Limited resources could lead to the cancellation of several planned missions The Washington Post reportsIn particular the sending of a probe to Venus, the removal of mineral samples of asteroids and the study of gravitational waves with the European space agency.