NASA told its staff Monday that the space agency will start cutting its ranks − including the office of its chief scientist − as part of a "broader governmentwide restructuring effort.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A crew of astronauts who will take over duties on the International Space Station from NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — allowing the duo to return home after a days-long journey turned ...

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.

In this image taken from video released by SpaceX, NASA’s newest space telescope, Spherex, drifts off into space after separating from a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage after launching from ...

As the entire college basketball community worried about the status of Duke phenom Cooper Flagg on Thursday afternoon, a final 20 minutes still had to be played in Charlotte. The top-ranked Blue ...