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 announces the scheduled launch of Lucy, a twelve-year space probe on the Jupiter trojan asteroids, the first mission to do so. It will launch from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on October 16. 2021-09-28
The NASA robotic lander "InSight" lands safely on the Elysium Planitia plain of Mars to study the geology of the red planet. 2018-11-26
NASA confirms that Scott Tilley, a Canadian amateur astronomer and satellite tracker, has rediscovered NASA's IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration) satellite while he was searching for the U.S. government's classified Zuma satellite. NASA engineers will try to analyze the data from the spacecraft to learn more about the state of the spacecraft. 2018-02-1
U.S. President Donald Trump names former NASA astronaut James F. Reilly as leader of the U.S. Geological Survey. 2018-01-26
NASA Curiosity Mars rover begins its mission to its destination and drives to Mount Sharp. 2013-07-8
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 succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the moon. 2011-12-31
NASA's Kepler Mission announces the discovery of a planetary system of six planets circulating the star Kepler-11. 2011-02-2
NASA delays the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-133, its final mission, due to a circuitry glitch. 2010-11-2