NASA employees signed a letter detailing the destructive decisions that threaten to endanger lives and harm the public good.

A palpable sense of alarm is sweeping through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as proposed budget cuts and impending mass layoffs ignite a firestorm of protest.

At the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), approximately 2,145 senior-ranking employees are expected to leave the agency, according to a report published by Politico on Wednesday.

Nasa also "offers plenty of targets" for cutting government waste, said The Economist. Artemis – "the late-running, $92 billion-and-counting programme to return astronauts to the Moon " – is one.

Hundreds of current and ex-employees of NASA signed a formal dissent letter protesting the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to the agency.

“This is the biggest crisis facing the space agency in its history,” says Casey Dreier at the US space-exploration advocacy group The Planetary Society. “We are doing everything we can to ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to challenge the details of the claim and offered more mundane explanations;

NASA continues to reshape its leadership tier. The agency announced a number of personnel moves on Monday (Feb. 24), including the selection of Vanessa Wyche as acting associate administrator.