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JAXA space probe "Hayabusa2" delivers the first ever subsurface asteroid samples to Earth. The capsule, containing a small amount of material from Apollo asteroid 162173 Ryugu, landed in the Australian outback.
2020-12-5

The Jane Greaves-led international scientific team announce that they have detected a gas called phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus that indicates microorganisms may inhabit Earth's inhospitable neighbor. If confirmed, it would be the first known extraterrestrial life.
2020-09-14

Christina Koch returns to Earth from the International Space Station after a continuous 328 days in space, longer than any woman in history.
2020-02-6

Soyuz MS-11 returned to Earth, landing in Kazakhstan, from the International Space Station carrying Canadian David Saint-Jacques, American Anne McClain and Russian Oleg Kononenko. The astronauts and cosmonaut spent 204 days aboard the ISS, a record for Canada.
2019-06-24

The United Launch Alliance successfully launches NASA's ICESat-2 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The satellite will provide more precise information on Earth's polar ice caps. It is the final mission for the Delta II rocket.
2018-09-15

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

The European Space Agency (ESA) approves the PLATO space observatory which will seek out Earth-like exoplanets.
2017-06-21

The Earth has lost a tenth of its wilderness in the last two decades.
2016-09-8

A newly observed near-Earth asteroid 2013 EC passes Earth within the orbit of the Moon.
2013-03-4

Near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis passes close to the Earth with observations by European astronomers estimating that it is larger than previously thought.
2013-01-10