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NASA space probe Lucy flies by asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh, the first of eight asteroids planned to be visited by the spacecraft.
2023-11-1

The NASA robotic lander "InSight" lands safely on the Elysium Planitia plain of Mars to study the geology of the red planet.
2018-11-26

NASA announces that the "Kepler" spacecraft has expended all its fuel and will be retired after nearly 10 years of service, having found more than 2,600 exoplanets.
2018-10-30

SpaceX's scheduled launch of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is delayed until April 18. TESS is designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method and is 400 times more powerful than the "Kepler" space observatory.
2018-04-16

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 Kepler space telescope has discovered 95 new exoplanets.
2018-02-15

NASA's Kepler space observatory announces the discovery of three new planets in the Goldilocks zone capable of supporting life.
2015-01-6

NASA's Kepler space telescope is placed in a precautionary 10-day safe mode after engineers noticed a problem with the instrument's orientation mechanism.
2013-01-21

NASA’s Curiosity rover finds calcium deposits on Mars similar to those seen on Earth when water circulates in cracks and rock fractures.
2013-01-19

Scientists at NASA announce the Kepler mission's discovery of a planet orbiting two suns. This is the first unambiguous detection of a circumbinary planet, i.e., a planet that orbits two stars instead of one.
2011-09-16