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 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.

NASA confirmed Thursday that the space agency may have sidestepped the sweeping layoffs it was expected to implement this week, potentially saving hundreds of newly hired employees and career ...

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 ...

Earth will soon gain a new robotic companion. NASA's latest space telescope, SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer ...

However, by the end of the day, there were no reports of layoffs of any magnitude across NASA facilities. Some said they were told that their specific centers, such as the Goddard Space Flight ...