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NASA confirms water has been spotted on the sunlit surface of the moon.
2020-10-26

NASA reports that it has detected a huge meteor explosion in Earth's atmosphere on December 18, 2018, above Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. The explosion went largely unnoticed due to its location. The explosion, which was ten times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, was the second largest of its kind in 30 years.
2019-03-18

NASA announces that the "Kepler" spacecraft has expended all its fuel and will be retired after nearly 10 years of service, having found more than 2,600 exoplanets.
2018-10-30

Led overall by researchers at Aix-Marseille Université in France using NASA's "Kepler Space Telescope", "Nature Astronomy" publishes observations of what may be a new exoplanet named K2-229b, whose attributes may resemble the planet of Mercury (hot, metallic, and dense).
2018-03-27

NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft crashes into Mercury after surpassing its one year primary mission by three years.
2015-04-30

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity extends evidence of water-bearing minerals when studying the rock Tintina.
2013-03-19

NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft crash into a mile-high cliff near the Lunar North Pole to close out a successful mission to map the Moon's gravity field with unprecedented precision.
2012-12-17

NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the moon.
2011-12-31

NASA reschedules the final mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavour for Monday.
2011-05-9

NASA clears the Space Shuttle Discovery for its final flight on Thursday.
2011-02-18