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NASA says that a coronal mass ejection directed at Earth will result in a geomagnetic storm causing disruption to radio and GPS communications on November 30, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere. 2023-11-29
NASA suspends the inaugural launch of the Artemis 1 rocket for a second time, after a fuel leak causes a delay of more than two hours. 2022-09-3
NASA announces that the International Space Station will be opened for commercial business in 2020 for $58 million. 2019-06-7
NASA's "Dawn" spacecraft exhausts all of its hydrazine fuel propellant and without a functioning maneuvering system enters into uncontrolled motion around dwarf planet Ceres, thus ending its 11-year mission. 2018-11-1
U.S. President Donald Trump signs the "Space Policy Directive 1" that establishes the foundation for a crewed mission to the Moon, while also maintaining a longer-term NASA goal of landing a man on Mars. 2017-12-11
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's "New Horizons" spacecraft completes a historic flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto and its five moons. Measurements, along with many high-quality photos and reams of data, were taken, including conclusive information regarding the diameter of Pluto and its moons.2015-07-14
NASA releases new pictures from the Dawn spacecraft as it approaches from a distance of 238,000 miles of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will go into orbit around the dwarf planet on March 6. 2015-01-19
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reawakens at 20:00 UTC in preparation for observing the dwarf planet Pluto and its satellites. New Horizons, launched on January 19, 2006, will begin distant observations on January 15, 2015, culminating with its July 14, 2015 closest approach flyby. 2014-12-6
NASA observes the asteroid YU 55 as it makes a close Earth flyby, passing within 0.85 lunar distances (about 201,700 miles) of the Earth. YU 55 is approximately 400 m across, and is the largest asteroid to make a close pass since 1976. 2011-11-8