Sources: Space
NASA announces discovery of Earth's subtle electric field, which contributes to the polar wind phenomenon. Its significance as to the emergence of life and complex organisms on Earth, and the planet's physical and chemical properties, are to be analyzed. 2024-08-28
NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule containing samples from the asteroid 101955 Bennu successfully lands back on Earth. 2023-09-24
NASA announces that "Voyager 2" entered into the interstellar medium after exiting the heliosphere on November 5. 2018-12-10
NASA's Opportunity rover is spotted on satellite imagery three months after it went silent during a Martian dust storm. 2018-09-26
NASA discovers its first exoplanet via the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite space telescope. Pi Mensae c, a small Earth-like exoplanet, is located nearly 60 light-years away from Earth. 2018-09-19
NASA's "Opportunity" rover is temporarily shut down due to a dust storm. 2018-06-11
NASA confirms that 1,284 objects discovered by its Kepler spacecraft are in fact exoplanets. 2016-05-10
The U.S. Army, working with the U.S. Navy and NASA, through its Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator transport helicopter re-design program, in the latest issue of Army Technology Magazine, takes note of some new designs Sikorsky-Boeing (the Sikorsky Defiant, which like the existing Sikorsky X2 and Sikorsky S-97 Raider, features a faster pusher propeller) and Bell Helicopter (the V-280 Valor, which resembles a slimmed-down version of the tilt-rotor V-22 Osprey, and comes in three versions: a troop- and equipment-carrying utility style, a medevac, and an attack chopper) have come up with since they were selected by the Pentagon in August 2014. 2015-03-8
NASA's Kepler telescope suffers a critical hardware failure, possibly putting an end to its planet hunting mission. 2013-05-15
NASA delays the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-133, its final mission, due to a circuitry glitch. 2010-11-2