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.

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

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.

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

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.

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;

“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 ...

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.