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NASA announces that the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered water vapor around the PDS 70 star.
2023-07-24

In a news release published by NASA, it is revealed that the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered traces of water on the exoplanet WASP-18b, which has a mass equal to 10 Jupiters.
2023-05-31

Blue Origin launches four crew into sub-orbit on a New Shepard rocket from its Corn Ranch spaceport in Van Horn, Texas. The crew includes Blue Origin Vice President Audrey Powers, NASA engineer Chris Boshuizen, space tourist Glen de Vries, and actor William Shatner. Shatner, best known for his portrayal of Captain Kirk in the "Star Trek" media franchise, becomes the oldest ever person in space at the age of 90.
2021-10-13

Led overall by researchers at Aix-Marseille Université in France using NASA's "Kepler Space Telescope", "Nature Astronomy" publishes observations of what may be a new exoplanet named K2-229b, whose attributes may resemble the planet of Mercury (hot, metallic, and dense).
2018-03-27

NASA's "Dawn" spacecraft enters orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres.
2015-03-6

A temporary third radiation belt is discovered around planet Earth by NASA's twin Van Allen Probes.
2013-02-28

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 and Lockheed Martin unveil the first space-bound Orion spacecraft in Cape Canaveral. [http:--www.floridatoday.com-article-20120702-SPACE-120702005-orion-delta-iv-4-spacecraft-kennedy-space-center?nclick_check=1 (Florida Today)]date=May 2020
2012-07-2

Mali appoints Cheick Modibo Diarra, Microsoft chairman for Africa and a former NASA astrophysicist, as its interim prime minister after a coup d'état.
2012-04-17

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