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A Norse Atlantic Airways Boeing 787 lands at Troll Airfield in Antarctica, making it the first time that this type of aircraft has landed in Antarctica.
2023-11-16

NASA announces that the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered water vapor around the PDS 70 star.
2023-07-24

The uncrewed Artemis 1 mission, the first of the NASA's Artemis program, ends with a splashdown of the Orion capsule in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California at 17:40 UTC.
2022-12-11

A group of scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of New Mexico announces that water clouds are discovered on TOI-1231 b, a Neptune-like exoplanet that is located 90 light-years away from Earth.
2021-06-11

NASA announces the discovery of preserved organic matter in an ancient lake bed on Mars by its Curiosity rover. It has not been determined if the matter was potentially related to past life on Mars or not.
2018-06-7

As predicted by NASA, the Apollo-group-type asteroid 2012 TC4 (approximately 15 m in diameter) passes a distance of 0.0003352 AU mi from Earth, well within the Moon's orbit.
2017-10-12

According to a new NASA (U.S.) study, ice sheet gains outweigh losses on the continent of Antarctica. An increase in snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago outweighs increased losses from the continent's thinning glaciers. In 2013, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change findings suggested gains were not keeping up with losses. NASA glaciologist Jay Zwally said, "We’re essentially in agreement with other studies ... (except) ice gain in East Antarctica and the interior of West Antarctica exceeds losses in the other areas."
2015-10-31

NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft crash into a mile-high cliff near the Lunar North Pole to close out a successful mission to map the Moon's gravity field with unprecedented precision.
2012-12-17

Mali appoints Cheick Modibo Diarra, Microsoft chairman for Africa and a former NASA astrophysicist, as its interim prime minister after a coup d'état.
2012-04-17

NASA launches its NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite to send back data on weather and climate conditions.
2011-10-28