NASA confirmed Thursday that the space agency may have sidestepped the sweeping layoffs it was expected to implement this week, potentially saving hundreds of newly hired employees and career ...

Hundreds of NASA employees — about 5% of the workforce — signed up for President Donald Trump's deferred resignation offer earlier this month, the space agency said Wednesday afternoon.

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Among other changes, Vanessa Wyche, who previously led Johnson Space Center, has been named NASA's acting associate administrator. NASA continues to reshape its leadership tier. The agency ...

A NASA planetary defense mission will ride to space atop a SpaceX rocket two and a half years from now. The agency announced on Friday (Feb. 21) that it has selected Elon Musk's company to launch ...

However, by the end of the day, there were no reports of layoffs of any magnitude across NASA facilities. Some said they were told that their specific centers, such as the Goddard Space Flight ...

Rockets launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, which is an hour east of Orlando theme parks. Godspeed, Athena. A Falcon 9 is set to launch a ...

NASA has abruptly closed its chief-scientist office, along with 2 other offices, firing 23 employees. The 10 March action leaves the agency without a way of feeding independent science advice to ...

NASA's Artemis campaign envisions the moon as being a crucial pit stop to prepare U.S. astronauts and their vehicles to travel onward to Mars. The U.S. company that made history in 2024 with an ...

WASHINGTON, March 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's newest astrophysics observatory, SPHEREx, is on its way to study the origins of our universe and the history of galaxies, and to search for the ...

Deanne Fisher receives funding from the Australian Research Council. NASA will soon launch a new telescope which it says will create the “most colourful” map of the cosmos ever made.