NASA became the latest agency to offer its employees an opportunity to accept a deferred resignation as a form of a buyout, a move the agency said will help reduce its headcount. Eligible employees ...

NASA is monitoring a plane-sized asteroid zooming past the Earth on Thursday at around 13,600 miles per hour. The space rock known as "2022 YS5" made its closest approach at around 4.15 million miles ...

Earlier this month, astronomers noticed a mysterious object speeding toward the inner solar system from outside of our star system. It's an exceedingly rare occurrence, marking only the third ...

NASA's proposed 2026 budget is dramatically smaller than its current budget. Many NASA science missions face cuts or cancellation. Some major telescopes and planetary exploration projects are at risk.

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The director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center announced her resignation Monday, marking yet another high-profile departure as questions loom about the agency’s budget and future. Makenzie Lystrup ...

A crew wearing dark blue — from left, Hungary’s Tibor Kapu, Axiom Space’s Peggy Whitson, India’s Shubhanshu Shukla and Poland’s Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski — visits the International Space Station’s ...

The claim was based on the minimum possible starting pay an astronaut could receive in 2019, but even then astronauts could start at higher pay. In 2024, all astronauts made more than double that. The ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to zip past the Earth on August 16 at around 17,717 miles per hour. Known as 2025 PR1, the space rock is estimated to be about 55 feet across and will make ...