Sources: CNN
Firefly Aerospace successfully lands the Blue Ghost Mission 1 on the Moon as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, delivering payloads to Mare Crisium with instruments to study lunar regoliths and the interactions between solar wind and Earth's magnetic field. 2025-03-2
Astrobotic's and NASA's Peregrine Mission One lunar lander is destroyed as it reenters Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean following the failure of its propulsion system. 2024-01-18
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 confirms that the James Webb Space Telescope has identified carbon dioxide on the Jovian moon Europa. The carbon dioxide, detected in a specific region on the moon's icy surface is believed to have originated from within its subsurface ocean. 2023-09-21
NASA announces that the James Webb Space Telescope collided with a micrometeoroid last month, but continues to function normally. 2022-06-9
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
Peggy Whitson, commander of the International Space Station (ISS), breaks the record for most total days spent in space by any NASA astronaut, at more than 534 days. 2017-04-24
U.S. Congress passes a bill that mandates NASA send humans to Mars by 2033. 2017-03-8
NASA launches the robotic Mars Science Laboratory, the largest rover yet sent to Mars, with the aim of finding evidence for past or present life on Mars. 2011-11-26
NASA delays the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-133, its final mission, due to a circuitry glitch. 2010-11-2