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The Boeing Crew Flight Test capsule returns to Earth uncrewed, landing at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, United States, after being docked for three months at the International Space Station.
2024-09-7

NASA reports that it has detected a huge meteor explosion in Earth's atmosphere on December 18, 2018, above Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. The explosion went largely unnoticed due to its location. The explosion, which was ten times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, was the second largest of its kind in 30 years.
2019-03-18

The European Space Agency (ESA) unveils two titanium plaques etched with artwork, which will be part of the outside of the CHEOPS exoplanet-characterization satellite during its orbit around Earth.
2018-08-28

Proxima Centauri b, an Earth-like exoplanet, is hit with a deadly superflare.
2018-04-10

China's Shenzhou 11 returns to Earth after completing China's longest manned space mission to date.
2016-11-18

Soyuz TMA-06M: Three astronauts return safely to Earth from the International Space Station aboard a Russian capsule.
2013-03-16

French very-high-resolution optical Earth-imaging satellite Pléiades-HR 1B is launched successfully via a Russian Soyuz STA rocket out of the Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana.
2012-12-2

The UN Conference on Sustainable Development begins in Rio de Janeiro, launching a new round of debate on the future habitability of Earth, its resources and people, 20 years after the first Earth Summit.
2012-06-13

Paeleoclimatology research published in "Current Biology" suggests that the greenhouse gas methane from dinosaur's flatulence may have warmed the Earth.
2012-05-7

Scientists use a geoid model to illustrate the force of gravity on Earth from data from the Goce satellite.
2011-04-1