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The China National Space Administration's Chang'e 6 spacecraft lifts off from the surface of the far side of the Moon carrying samples of lunar soil and rocks back to Earth.
2024-06-4

Long-period comet C-2022 E3 (ZTF) makes its closest approach to Earth after reaching its perihelion on January 12.
2023-02-1

NASA releases the first full-color image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, showing a segment of a galaxy cluster 4.6 billion light-years away from Earth.
2022-07-11

In a rare celestial event, Mercury passes directly between Earth and the Sun for five and a half hours. Mercury's next transit will be in 2032.
2019-11-11

A newly-published paper suggests that some tardigrades may outlive most life on Earth.
2017-07-15

The existence of Boundless Informant, an NSA tool used by the U.S. government to watch every country on planet Earth, is revealed.
2013-06-8

NASA’s Curiosity rover finds calcium deposits on Mars similar to those seen on Earth when water circulates in cracks and rock fractures.
2013-01-19

Jupiter becomes the brightest object in the night sky after the Moon as it makes its closest approach to Earth since 1963.
2010-09-20

Germany's TanDEM-X satellite, whose aim it is to create the most precise 3D map of Earth's surface, obtains its first images.
2010-06-25

The 2009 ascent of Kangchenjunga by Korean climber Oh Eun-sun, aiming to be the first woman to climb the 14 highest peaks on Earth, is declared "disputed" by Himalayan climbing records arbiter, Elizabeth Hawle.
2010-04-23