NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, one of the world’s premier centers for robotic space exploration, is laying off about 325 people, or roughly 5 percent of the workforce, laboratory director ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced Tuesday, Nov. 12, its second major round of layoff in nine months, cutting more than 300 jobs—approximately 5% of its workforce—to address ...

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration At 15.4 billion miles away from Earth in interstellar space, Voyager 1 won't last much longer. In fact, NASA's flight engineers may have thought the 47-year ...

Trump has previously proposed dismantling the Department of Education. President-elect Donald Trump has proposed sweeping reform for the nation's educational systems. Here's a look at what areas ...

An engine failure on a passenger plane taking off from Sydney, Australia, prompted the aircraft to circle before a safe emergency landing, the airline Qantas said. At the same time, a grass fire ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is all set to complete its final Venus gravity assist manoeuvre on Wednesday. It will pass within 233 miles (376 km) of the planet's surface. The US space agency said the ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has just completed its 66th flyby of Jupiter, and the latest batch of images it has sent back to Earth are truly spectacular. The spacecraft was launched back in 2011 ...

"We are basically almost landing on a star." NASA's Parker Solar Probe should have completed its seventh swing past Venus on Nov. 6 — the spacecraft's final maneuver around the amber planet ...

Georgia safety Malaki Starks is currently graded as a top-four prospect by the B/R Scouting Department. He could immediately step into the Dolphins defense and replace Jordan Poyer or Jevon ...

NASA’s bold mission to save Earth from a killer asteroid. We're sorry, but something went wrong while fetching your podcast feeds. Please contact us at plus@slate ...

NASA / JPL-Caltech In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2: a pair of spacecraft tasked with touring Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune by taking advantage of a rare alignment of the outer planets ...

Astronomers continue to stress the value of X-ray science as NASA's flagship Chandra X-ray telescope remains on the chopping block. Astronomers have scoured decades-old data from NASA's Chandra X ...