Sources: CNN
The Trump administration bans NASA scientists and US government officials from attending the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conference that started this week in Hangzhou, China, which are focused on the seventh IPCC Assessment Report on climate change. 2025-02-27
NASA's DART spacecraft successfully impacts Dimorphos at 23:16 UTC, becoming the first spacecraft to impact an asteroid. 2022-09-26
The James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration among NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency, successfully enters orbit at its target destination, located near the Sun–Earth L 2 Lagrange point about 1.5 e6km from Earth. 2022-01-24
NASA's TESS exoplanet space telescope, whose launch was initially delayed, is successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station by SpaceX on a Falcon 9 rocket. The first stage of the rocket successfully landed on SpaceX's autonomous spaceport drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. 2018-04-18
U.S. Congress passes a bill that mandates NASA send humans to Mars by 2033. 2017-03-8
NASA publishes the first close up photos of Pluto from the New Horizons spacecraft. They show geologically young mountains made of water ice. 2015-07-15
NASA reports the discovery of Kepler-37b, the smallest exoplanet yet known. 2013-02-20
NASA announces new plans to launch another Curiosity-like robotic science rover to Mars in 2020. 2012-12-4
NASA debunks rumors of new evidence of life on Mars, but its Curiosity rover continues to make many smaller discoveries. 2012-11-30
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