Sources: The Guardian
NASA formally announces that asteroid 2024 YR4 now poses "no significant threat" to Earth in 2032 and beyond as the chances of an impact drop to 1-in-59,000 (0.0017%). This means a planetary defense mission to intercept and deflect the object in 2028 during a close flyby of Earth is no longer necessary. 2025-02-24
NASA announces the scheduled launch of Lucy, a twelve-year space probe on the Jupiter trojan asteroids, the first mission to do so. It will launch from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on October 16. 2021-09-28
NASA announces that the SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station would be delayed to mid-November. Furthermore, NASA calls for SpaceX satellite to investigate the issue that caused a GPS Block III to abort two seconds before launching on October 2. 2020-10-10
In data collected by NASA's "Juno" spacecraft, an INAF team discovers suggestions of a new volcano close to the south pole of Jupiter's moon Io. 2018-07-14
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
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 "Juno" spacecraft reaches Jupiter and enters into its orbit after a five-year flight. 2016-07-5
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 launches its NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite to send back data on weather and climate conditions. 2011-10-28
NASA's Kepler Mission announces the discovery of a planetary system of six planets circulating the star Kepler-11. 2011-02-2