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Around 1,200 people are evacuated from the Hungry Valley area near Los Angeles, California, United States, as the Post Fire spreads through the dry mountains near Interstate 5.
2024-06-16

Scientists announce that NASA's "Parker Solar Probe" became the first ever spacecraft to enter the stellar corona of the Sun during a flyby in April.
2021-12-14

NASA's "Parker Solar Probe" spacecraft becomes the closest ever sent to the sun, by passing 42.7 million km (26.6 million miles) from the sun's surface. The previous record was set in 1976 by the "Helios 2" spacecraft. Parker's elliptical orbit will eventually take it to within 6.1 million km (3.8 million miles) of the sun.
2018-10-30

NASA launches the "Parker Solar Probe", an unpiloted spacecraft designed to study the sun.
2018-08-12

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

New data from the NASA space probe MESSENGER indicate that Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, almost surely has water ice buried beneath the surface at its north pole.
2012-11-29

California's prison system is facing a lawsuit from the Center for Constitutional Rights for its use of long terms of solitary confinement, some of which last decades.
2012-05-31

The trial of Dr Conrad Murray for manslaughter in connection to the death of American singer Michael Jackson begins in California.
2011-09-27

Italian film producer Dino De Laurentiis ("Serpico", "Death Wish") dies in Los Angeles, California ending a movie career that spanned seven decades in both the United States and Italy.
2010-11-10

The death toll from the fire in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno in the U.S. state of California, reaches 4, with 50 other people injured.
2010-09-10