NASA has lost about 500 people via normal attrition as well since Trump took office in January. Counting those losses, NASA's workforce will shrink to about 14,000 by Jan. 9, 2026, when the employees who said yes during the DRP's second phase will come off the rolls, Warner said in the statement.

House and Senate appropriations bills would preserve SLS, Orion, and the Gateway. However, the House version of NASA's budget has an interesting paragraph directing NASA to explore cheaper, faster options for a new SLS upper stage.

Senegal has become the 56th country to sign the Artemis Accords for peaceful space exploration, NASA announced. The accords pledge care in space exploration.

A group of 360 current and former employees penned a letter rebuking "rapid and wasteful changes" across staffing, mission and budgetary cuts at NASA.

One of these ride-along NASA efforts is the Athena EPIC (Economical Payload Integration Cost) SmallSat, which will demonstrate a new way of more efficiently placing remote-sensing (or rather, Earth-observing) instruments into orbit.

At least 1 in 5 NASA staff — mostly top scientists, engineers and senior managers — plan to announce their departure by a Friday deadline, according to documents I obtained this week.

The helicopters will scout the Martian surface to help prepare for a human landing on the Red Planet.

Current and former NASA employees have co-signed a declaration protesting changes at the agency that some say pose a grave risk to astronauts.

AS NASA moves towards looming budget cuts, the agency still lacks a permanent leader. Here's why the search for administrator is taking so long.

Along with launching two NASA probes, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried five other satellites into orbit with goals ranging from basic science to technology development.

Visible on the planet itself is a dark patch near the top, marking the frigid northern polar cap, where temperatures dip to about -190 degrees Fahrenheit. A circular region shows Elysium Mons, one of Mars’ giant volcanoes.