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More than 20% of NASA's workforce requests to leave agency
About 3,870 employees have applied to depart NASA over two rounds through the Trump administration's deferred resignation ...
Lawmakers writing NASA’s budget want a cheaper upper stage for the SLS rocket
House and Senate appropriations bills would preserve SLS, Orion, and the Gateway. However, the House version of NASA's budget ...
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'NASA is under attack.' Space agency employees and lawmakers protest mass layoffs, science cuts amid budget turmoil
NASA employees and allies protested sweeping science cuts they say are gutting the agency from within. As Congress pushes ...
Investing in Space: NASA's months of reckoning
A group of 360 current and former employees penned a letter rebuking "rapid and wasteful changes" across staffing, mission ...
The NASA exodus
At least 1 in 5 NASA staff — mostly top scientists, engineers and senior managers — plan to announce their departure by a ...
Jaw-Dropping Video Shows NASA’s Plan to Deliver a Helicopter Swarm to Mars Without Landing
The helicopters will scout the Martian surface to help prepare for a human landing on the Red Planet.
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SpaceX launches NASA's TRACERS mission to protect Earth from space weather (video)
One of these ride-along NASA efforts is the Athena EPIC (Economical Payload Integration Cost) SmallSat, which will ...
When will NASA get a permanent leader and why is it taking so long?
AS NASA moves towards looming budget cuts, the agency still lacks a permanent leader. Here's why the search for administrator ...
NASA loses another senior official as tension about the agency's future grows
The departures are playing out as NASA and other government agencies contend with significant cuts to funding and personnel.
NASA probes will study how solar wind triggers potentially dangerous "space weather"
Along with launching two NASA probes, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried five other satellites into orbit with goals ranging ...
NASA: Senegal is 56th country to sign Artemis Accords
Senegal has become the 56th country to sign the Artemis Accords for peaceful space exploration, NASA announced. The accords ...