At 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 1, when the federal government shut down due to a lack of appropriations from Congress, NASA began pausing its operations. While the agency has protocols for dealing with a ...

NASA faces significant budget cuts and potential permanent workforce reductions (RIFs), rather than temporary furloughs, if Congress fails to pass a stopgap funding measure, with the OMB directing ...

The new space station crew includes American Chris Williams, who holds a Ph.D. in astronomy and is a board-certified medical ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday took another step to make it harder to find major, legally mandated scientific assessments of how climate change is endangering the nation and its ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's flagship center for space science is under attack from within, and some of the biggest ...

A trio of astronauts and cosmonauts will celebrate Thanksgiving by heading to the International Space Station.

( KTLA) — NASA on Wednesday released new images and data of Comet 3I/ATLAS, the rare interstellar object that set off weeks ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will lay off about 550 workers, the California research lab said, in a restructuring move that its director told employees was not related to the ongoing government ...

Amid a looming government shutdown, NASA's future hinges on whether Congress can pass a stopgap funding measure with protective language for the agency. On Wednesday, the White House Office of ...