Former television host Bill Nye “The Science Guy” visited Capitol Hill on Monday to advocate against President Trump’s budget for NASA. He’s the CEO of the Planetary Society, a non-profit space ...
From top left to bottom right, the 2025 astronaut class: U.S. Army CW3 Ben Bailey, Rebecca Lawler, U.S. Air Force Maj. Cameron Jones, Laura Edgar, Yuri Kubo, U.S. Air ...
A quiet morning on a West Texas farm took an unexpected turn when Ann Walter and her family looked up and saw what appeared to be a massive parachute drifting silently across the sky. Walter was ...
Some 15,000 NASA employees were sent home this week as a government shutdown began, halting work across much of an agency already grappling with budget cuts and widespread job losses. But at least one ...
The Amazon founder’s space company will transport NASA's VIPER rover to the lunar south pole—if it proves capable of delivering a payload to the moon in an upcoming mission. NASA’s VIPER lunar rover ...
NASA has furloughed more than 15,000 employees, 83% of its federal workforce, as a result of the government shutdown. A plan sent to the Office of Management and Budget details NASA’s shutdown ...
The vast majority of NASA's employees could be furloughed and all but its most critical operations – including management of the International Space Station – are likely to be paused. Many NASA ...
A federal government shutdown resulted in the furlough of approximately 15,000 NASA civil servants, necessitating the suspension of most agency functions, including educational support, public access, ...
Of more than 18,000 workers employed at NASA, about 82.8% of them would be sent home without pay – or furloughed – during a government shutdown. Even if the government were to shut down, NASA's ...
In a report titled “The Destruction of NASA’s Mission,” Senate Democrats claim NASA is preemptively carrying out “devastating” cuts by order of the Trump administration. Reading time: Reading time 3 ...
NASA's operational stability and workforce face significant threats from potential government shutdowns, which could trigger permanent reductions in force (RIFs) as directed by an OMB memo. The FY26 ...
A partnership with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company will revive a previously canceled NASA mission to send the VIPER rover to the moon. Credit: NASA NASA just brought back from the dead a science ...