Sources: CNN
In the United States, Blue Origin launches NASA's ESCAPADE spacecraft mission to study Mars' magnetosphere. It is the second launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn launch vehicle, and the first successful landing of the vehicle's reusable first stage. 2025-11-13
NASA awards Lockheed Martin a contract to build a next-generation "Mars Ascent Vehicle" to return the first rock samples from Mars to Earth in the 2030s. 2022-02-8
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory releases a report officially disclosing a meteor explosion of roughly 2.1 kilotons of force near Thule Air Base in northwest Greenland on July 25. The United States Air Force confirms the explosion, adding that it did not impact operations at Thule Air Base. 2018-08-3
NASA astronomers use the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes in research implying that "hot Saturn" (high surface-atmosphere temperatures and gas giant-mass) exoplanet WASP-39b, located 700 light-years from Earth, has a large amount of water molecules in its atmosphere. 2018-03-1
Global temperatures rose to the hottest level on record for 2016 for a third successive record according to NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 2017-01-18
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft crashes into Mercury after surpassing its one year primary mission by three years. 2015-04-30
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reawakens at 20:00 UTC in preparation for observing the dwarf planet Pluto and its satellites. New Horizons, launched on January 19, 2006, will begin distant observations on January 15, 2015, culminating with its July 14, 2015 closest approach flyby. 2014-12-6
NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun, from the US state of California. 2013-06-27
NASA’s Curiosity rover finds calcium deposits on Mars similar to those seen on Earth when water circulates in cracks and rock fractures. 2013-01-19
NASA scientists advise the 33 miners trapped in Chile to regulate sleeping patterns, boost intake of Vitamin D and take exercise. 2010-09-4