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
Boulders are discovered on the Bennu asteroid by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which is expected to collect samples from the asteroid's surface later this month. 2020-10-10
Retired NASA astronaut Mark Kelly announces that he will run for the 2020 United States Senate special election in Arizona. 2019-02-12
NASA announces it has completed its first full-power test of the Kilopower nuclear reactor for space. NASA intends to use the technology to power exploration missions to the Moon and Mars. 2018-05-2
NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered 95 new exoplanets. 2018-02-15
President Trump nominates Oklahoma congressman Jim Bridenstine, member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, to be Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 2017-09-1
Astronaut Scott Kelly announces his retirement from NASA effective April 1. Kelly holds the record for the American who has spent the most time in space. 2016-03-11
NASA reports that scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have found a salty ocean lurking beneath the surface of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede. 2015-03-13
NASA successfully launches its MAVEN space probe on a mission to study Mars' atmosphere. 2013-11-18