Sources: CNN
NASA's "Perseverance" finds evidence that an ancient river delta on Mars held a crater-filling lake billions of years ago. 2023-12-12
NASA space probe Lucy flies by asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh, the first of eight asteroids planned to be visited by the spacecraft. 2023-11-1
NASA announces that they have discovered their 5000th exoplanet since 1992, when astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail announced the discovery of two exoplanets orbiting PSR B1257+12. 2022-03-21
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's Kepler space observatory announces the discovery of three new planets in the Goldilocks zone capable of supporting life. 2015-01-6
Two NASA astronauts at the International Space Station complete a series of spacewalks to replace a faulty ammonia coolant pump. 2013-12-24
NASA's MRO spacecraft provides images allowing scientists for the first time to create a 3D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the Martian surface. 2013-03-9
U.S. space agency NASA admits it posted online a photograph taken from the International Space Station of an Indian mountain Saser Muztagh, claiming it as Mount Everest. With Nepalese netizens left puzzled by this, it took a Nepalese expert to point out the agency's inaccuracy. 2012-12-13
NASA announces new plans to launch another Curiosity-like robotic science rover to Mars in 2020. 2012-12-4
As the isolation of the miners is similar to a space mission, NASA sends a team of doctors, who recommend the miners abstain from cigarettes and alcohol while trapped. 2010-09-1