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NASA's "Perseverance" finds evidence that an ancient river delta on Mars held a crater-filling lake billions of years ago.
2023-12-12

NASA announces the scheduled launch of Lucy, a twelve-year space probe on the Jupiter trojan asteroids, the first mission to do so. It will launch from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on October 16.
2021-09-28

NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe successfully lands and collects samples from the asteroid Bennu. The samples will be returned to Earth in 2023.
2020-10-20

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory confirms earlier observations by Indian Space Research Organisation's Astrosat space observatory of a rotating black hole in the binary star system 4U1630-47, which is spinning close to the speed of light, one of the fastest ever observed.
2018-11-8

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 reports that scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have found a salty ocean lurking beneath the surface of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede.
2015-03-13

NASA's MAVEN space probe successfully arrives in orbit over Mars.
2014-09-22

Top NASA scientist James Hansen retires in order to concentrate on global warming activism.
2013-04-2

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's MESSENGER space probe becomes the first space craft ever to enter into orbit around Mercury.
2011-03-17