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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's "Perseverance" rover successfully synthesizes breathable oxygen while on the surface of Mars. This demonstrates the feasibility of locally producing oxygen for human life support and propellant production.
2021-04-22

Results of the Juno mission are announced by NASA researchers, revealing new and unexpected information concerning Jupiter's poles, meteorology, and magnetic and gravitational fields.
2017-05-25

NASA announces Saturn's moon Enceladus has the conditions in its global subsurface ocean to support life.
2017-04-13

An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in the U.S. state of Virginia. The loss includes five thousand pounds of cargo.
2014-10-28

New data published independently by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show that the global warming trend is continuing.
2014-01-22

Cygnus 1 (also known as Orbital Sciences COTS Demo Flight) launches the first planned flight of the Orbital Sciences' unmanned resupply spacecraft Cygnus, its first flight to the International Space Station and the second launch of the company's Antares launch vehicle. The flight is under contract to NASA as Cygnus' demonstration mission in the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. The launch site is MARS on the Delmarva Peninsula in Virginia.
2013-09-18

The decommissioned NASA Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite re-enters Earth's atmosphere without incident, after more than 20 years in orbit.
2011-09-24

NASA announces plans for a Space Launch System to replace the Space Shuttle program with the first flight tentatively scheduled for 2017.
2011-09-14

A de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter seaplane crashes near Aleknagik, Alaska, killing five people, including former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens. Former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe and O'Keefe's son were aboard the plane, but survived.
2010-08-10