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Iceland becomes the first country in Europe to lift all remaining COVID-19-related restrictions due to a vaccination campaign that saw 88% of the population receive at least one vaccine dose.
2021-06-26

An annular solar eclipse lasting up to 3 minutes and 51 seconds is visible from central and eastern Canada, parts of the Arctic, and the Russian Far East. Observers in northeastern North America, as well as parts of Europe and Africa, also see a partial eclipse.
2021-06-10

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

The European Space Agency's "Rosetta" space probe ends its 12-year mission studying comet 67P-Churyumov–Gerasimenko in a "collision maneuver" into the comet's surface.
2016-09-30

The European Space Agency's robotic lander "Philae" is discovered wedged in a crack between some rocks in the shadow of a cliff on 67P-Churyumov–Gerasimenko by the Rosetta space probe after being lost since 2014.
2016-09-5

An article published in "Nature" reports high levels of molecular oxygen found by the Rosetta space probe on comet 67P-Churyumov-Gerasimenko. This discovery could have implications for theories of the origin of the solar system.
2015-10-28

The European Space Agency's "Rosetta" lands the "Philae" probe on the comet 67P-Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
2014-11-12

DNA analysis reveals that the Plague of Justinian responsible for killing up to half the population of Europe in the 6th century CE was caused by a variant of "Yersinia pestis", the same bacterium believed to have caused the Black Death.
2014-01-28

The Rosetta begins to 'wake up' from hibernation on its mission to rendezvous and land a probe on Comet 67P-Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
2014-01-20

Hundreds of flights are cancelled in Germany as the severe weather conditions across Europe continue. The government asks people to buy several days worth of food and retreat indoors for the rest of the week.
2010-01-9