Sources: Space
NASA announces that the International Space Station will be opened for commercial business in 2020 for $58 million. 2019-06-7
NASA announces that "Voyager 2" entered into the interstellar medium after exiting the heliosphere on November 5. 2018-12-10
NASA announces it has completed its first full-power test of the Kilopower nuclear reactor for space. NASA intends to use the technology to power exploration missions to the Moon and Mars. 2018-05-2
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
NASA publishes LRO images of the two craters on the Moon, where twin GRAIL probes ended their gravity-mapping mission in December 2012. 2013-03-19
A NASA spacecraft, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the Red Planet's early evolution. 2013-01-20
NASA observes the asteroid YU 55 as it makes a close Earth flyby, passing within 0.85 lunar distances (about 201,700 miles) of the Earth. YU 55 is approximately 400 m across, and is the largest asteroid to make a close pass since 1976. 2011-11-8
NASA's MESSENGER space probe becomes the first space craft ever to enter into orbit around Mercury. 2011-03-17
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