Sources: Space
NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies announces that the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth on 22 December 2032 has increased to 3.1% (1-in-32) following further observations of its orbital trajectory. It has now surpassed the threat of 99942 Apophis which once had a 2.7% chance of hitting Earth during 2004 before later being ruled out. 2025-02-18
NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe successfully lands and collects samples from the asteroid Bennu. The samples will be returned to Earth in 2023. 2020-10-20
NASA officially selects SpaceX, Blue Origin and Dynetics to build its next-generation lunar lander to carry American astronauts to the Moon by 2024. 2020-04-30
NASA records the brightest lunar meteor impact yet observed. 2013-05-17
NASA unveils the prototype of a lunar mining robot called the Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot (RASSOR). 2013-01-31
NASA reschedules the final mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavour for Monday. 2011-05-9
NASA GISS data shows that global temperatures in 2010 were tied with 2005 for the warmest year on record. 2011-01-12
NASA delays the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-133, its final mission, due to a circuitry glitch. 2010-11-2
More than 1,200 NASA employees are laid off despite a $19 billion funding budget passed by the United States Congress earlier in the week. 2010-10-1
NASA and Cornell University have given up attempting to move the "Spirit" rover, currently stuck in sand near Home Plate, Gusev crater on the planet Mars, and are converting it into a stationary outpost. Its twin rover, "Opportunity", remains mobile on Mars. 2010-02-3