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NASA announces discovery of Earth's subtle electric field, which contributes to the polar wind phenomenon. Its significance as to the emergence of life and complex organisms on Earth, and the planet's physical and chemical properties, are to be analyzed.
2024-08-28

NASA confirms that 1,284 objects discovered by its Kepler spacecraft are in fact exoplanets.
2016-05-10

NASA publishes the first close up photos of Pluto from the New Horizons spacecraft. They show geologically young mountains made of water ice.
2015-07-15

Two NASA astronauts at the International Space Station begin a series of spacewalks to replace a faulty ammonia coolant pump.
2013-12-21

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

NASA announces new plans to launch another Curiosity-like robotic science rover to Mars in 2020.
2012-12-4

NASA's "Curiosity" rover has detected several simple carbon-based organic compounds on Mars, but it remains unclear whether they were formed via Earthly contamination or whether they contain only elements indigenous to the planet.
2012-12-3

NASA announces that the "Voyager 1" spacecraft, launched in 1977, has nearly reached the edge of the Solar System and is imminently to past through the heliosphere into interstellar space.
2012-12-3

NASA debunks rumors of new evidence of life on Mars, but its Curiosity rover continues to make many smaller discoveries.
2012-11-30

A pinch of fine sand and dust became the first solid Martian sample deposited into the Sample Analysis at Mars, the biggest instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. The sample came from the patch of windblown material called Rocknest, which had provided a sample previously for mineralogical analysis by CheMin instrument.
2012-11-13