Sources: CNN
The members of NASA commercial Crew-11, who had been docked at the International Space Station (ISS) since August 2025, land on Earth one month early following the first-ever medical evacuation from the ISS. 2026-01-15
NASA cancels its lunar water-seeking rover mission with the VIPER rover, citing cost overruns and launch delays, after spending $450 million on the project. 2024-07-17
NASA announces that the James Webb Space Telescope collided with a micrometeoroid last month, but continues to function normally. 2022-06-9
NASA's "Opportunity" rover is temporarily shut down due to a dust storm. 2018-06-11
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 announces Saturn's moon Enceladus has the conditions in its global subsurface ocean to support life. 2017-04-13
SpaceX launches a NASA cargo run to the International Space Station, and in a spaceflight first, successfully lands its reusable main-stage booster on an autonomous spaceport drone ship. 2016-04-8
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
New data published independently by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show that the global warming trend is continuing. 2014-01-22
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