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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

Military medics are deployed to hospitals in Texas and California as cases surge.
2020-07-17

NASA says it has received the first message from interstellar space from its "Voyager" 2 spacecraft.
2019-11-4

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

Wildfires in the American states of California, Colorado and New Mexico now burn 31,000 acres of land, causing thousands to evacuate their homes.
2018-06-3

NASA's Mars "Curiosity" rover reaches its final destination Aeolis Mons, a mountain that rises 5.5 km at the center of Gale Crater.
2014-09-12

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

NASA launches its NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite to send back data on weather and climate conditions.
2011-10-28

NASA's Space Shuttle "Endeavour" successfully launches from the Kennedy Space Center in the U.S. state of Florida on its final mission. [http:--www.space.com-11677-nasa-shuttle-launch-endeavour-final-mission-sts-134-liftoff.html (Space.com)], [http:--www.ajc.com-news-nation-world-nasa-clears-space-shuttle-945979.html (AP via "Atlanta Journal-Constitution")]date=August 2019
2011-05-16