Sources: CNN
Smoke from wildfires in Siberia is detected in the Geographic North Pole for the first time in recorded history, according to NASA. The space agency says that as of August 6 "most of Russia" is covered in smoke, while Russia's weather monitoring institute Rosgidromet says that the situation "continues to deteriorate" in the far-eastern Sakha region with around 3.4 million hectares (8.4 million acres) of land currently on fire. 2021-08-9
NASA's "Dawn" spacecraft exhausts all of its hydrazine fuel propellant and without a functioning maneuvering system enters into uncontrolled motion around dwarf planet Ceres, thus ending its 11-year mission. 2018-11-1
NASA's Opportunity rover is spotted on satellite imagery three months after it went silent during a Martian dust storm. 2018-09-26
NASA announces that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite will be launched from Cape Canaveral on April 16. 2018-04-12
U.S. President Donald Trump signs the "Space Policy Directive 1" that establishes the foundation for a crewed mission to the Moon, while also maintaining a longer-term NASA goal of landing a man on Mars. 2017-12-11
Two NASA astronauts at the International Space Station begin a series of spacewalks to replace a faulty ammonia coolant pump. 2013-12-21
NASA records the brightest lunar meteor impact yet observed. 2013-05-17
NASA loses direct contact with the International Space Station due to an equipment failure. Communications are restored three hours later. 2013-02-19
The US space agency NASA claims that it was hacked 13 times last year compromising security. 2012-03-2
Scientists at NASA announce the Kepler mission's discovery of a planet orbiting two suns. This is the first unambiguous detection of a circumbinary planet, i.e., a planet that orbits two stars instead of one. 2011-09-16