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NASA says that a coronal mass ejection directed at Earth will result in a geomagnetic storm causing disruption to radio and GPS communications on November 30, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere.
2023-11-29

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

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

Led overall by researchers at Aix-Marseille Université in France using NASA's "Kepler Space Telescope", "Nature Astronomy" publishes observations of what may be a new exoplanet named K2-229b, whose attributes may resemble the planet of Mercury (hot, metallic, and dense).
2018-03-27

NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft crashes into Mercury after surpassing its one year primary mission by three years.
2015-04-30

NASA successfully launches its MAVEN space probe on a mission to study Mars' atmosphere.
2013-11-18

NASA scientists beam a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, the "Mona Lisa", to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a spacecraft orbiting the Moon, marking a first in laser communication.
2013-01-18

Scientists report Chinese deep-space probe Chang'e 2 successfully took a series of images of the asteroid 4179 Toutatis during flyby on 13 December.
2012-12-16

New data from the NASA space probe MESSENGER indicate that Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, almost surely has water ice buried beneath the surface at its north pole.
2012-11-29

NASA and Lockheed Martin unveil the first space-bound Orion spacecraft in Cape Canaveral. [http:--www.floridatoday.com-article-20120702-SPACE-120702005-orion-delta-iv-4-spacecraft-kennedy-space-center?nclick_check=1 (Florida Today)]date=May 2020
2012-07-2