Approximately 550 employees of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will be laid off, according to an announcement made on the agency's website on Monday (Oct. 13). The news comes in the midst of an ...

Bill Nye and hundreds of others gathered at Capitol Hill on Monday to protest against the Trump administration's proposed budget cuts to NASA, arguing that Congress has an obligation to promote the ...

Calls for the United States to return astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade have been increasingly loud and frequent, emanating from bipartisan lawmakers and science advocates alike. But ...

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 ...

Space exploration is as fickle as it is fantastic. From the highest highs to the lowest lows — from the euphoria of the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969, for example, to the devastation of the Space ...

The U.S. government shut down the same day Juno's last mission extension expired. NASA's spinning spacecraft studying the satellites of the solar system's largest celestial body (aside from the sun), ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of the Earth in 2029, reversing the Trump administration’s previous plan to ...

NASA awarded Sierra Space's parent company part of a $14 billion ISS supply contract in 2016. Nearly 10 years later, everyone on that contract but Sierra Space is doing supply runs to ISS. Last week, ...

NASA's Artemis III mission has a big problem. Currently slated for 2027, there's a lot of anxiety about whether the Starship lander that is supposed to take astronauts to the lunar surface just won't ...

A U.S. government shutdown has furloughed over 15,000 nonessential NASA employees. Essential operations, including support for the International Space Station and Artemis moon missions, will continue.

For decades, NASA has increasingly leaned on corporate contractors to develop the spacecraft it uses to explore the solar system. Triumphs have included SpaceX’s Dragon vehicles, which can now ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off 550 employees Tuesday, reducing the La Cañada Flintridge facility’s ...