U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has been tapped as NASA's new interim administrator by President Donald Trump on Thursday, July 10, 2025. (File photo) ...

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees have opted to leave the space agency through the Trump administration's deferred resignation program, NASA said on Saturday.

About 3,870 employees have applied to depart NASA over two rounds through the Trump administration's deferred resignation program, the agency disclosed.

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees have chosen to accept the Trump administration's "deferred resignation" option, reducing the agency's workforce by more than 20%.

About 20% of the employees at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration are set to depart the space agency, a NASA spokesperson said on Friday.

A scientific journal has retracted a controversial study that hinted at the possibility of a bizarre life form.

NASA has elected to find new sealant material to address helium leaks and explore several hardware changes to deal with what was determined to be overheated thrusters.

A group of 360 current and former employees penned a letter rebuking “rapid and wasteful changes” across staffing, mission and budgetary cuts at NASA.

TRACERS launch paves the way for NASA to study magnetic reconnection and how solar activity affects near-Earth space.

Jaw-Dropping Video Shows NASA’s Plan to Deliver a Helicopter Swarm to Mars Without Landing The helicopters will scout the Martian surface to help prepare for a human landing on the Red Planet.

Outdoors NASA unveils incredibly precise new satellite tool that anyone can use: 'You can zoom in to your country, your state, your city block' "You can see that by a simple mouse click." ...

NASA engineers revived a radiation-damaged space camera on Juno using heat—just in time to capture stunning images of Jupiter’s moon Io.