Sources: Space
NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule containing samples from the asteroid 101955 Bennu successfully lands back on Earth. 2023-09-24
Smoke from wildfires in Siberia is detected in the Geographic North Pole for the first time in recorded history, according to NASA. The space agency says that as of August 6 "most of Russia" is covered in smoke, while Russia's weather monitoring institute Rosgidromet says that the situation "continues to deteriorate" in the far-eastern Sakha region with around 3.4 million hectares (8.4 million acres) of land currently on fire. 2021-08-9
NASA announces the selection of two new missions to Venus, VERITAS and DAVINCI+, which will launch between 2028 and 2030. They will be the first American spacecraft sent to Venus since the "Magellan" mission in 1989. The missions will focus on mapping the surface of Venus and calculating the atmosphere's composition to better understand Venus's geological history. 2021-06-2
SpaceX successfully launches its Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying three NASA astronauts, Michael S. Hopkins, Victor J. Glover, Shannon Walker and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi to the International Space Station. It is the first crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft and the first night launch in the United States since STS-130. 2020-11-15
In data collected by NASA's "Juno" spacecraft, an INAF team discovers suggestions of a new volcano close to the south pole of Jupiter's moon Io. 2018-07-14
NASA announces the return of the final piece of data collected during "New Horizons"' flyby of Pluto in July 2015. The data, taking about five hours at light speed to travel across 5.5 billion kilometers (3.4 billion miles), arrived at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory on the morning of October 25. 2016-10-27
NASA states that it has found the best evidence yet of the existence of liquid water on Mars. The water is not pure but highly poisonous, containing various dissolved salts that on Earth only an extremophile microbe might survive within. 2015-09-28
NASA announces the "Voyager 1" space probe has left the Solar System becoming the first man-made object to reach interstellar space. 2013-09-12
NASA delays the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-133, its final mission, due to a circuitry glitch. 2010-11-2
NASA scientists advise the 33 miners trapped in Chile to regulate sleeping patterns, boost intake of Vitamin D and take exercise. 2010-09-4