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At least 51 miners are killed, several are trapped and twenty-one are injured after a coal mine explodes in Tabas, Iran, caused by a methane gas leak.
2024-09-21

Six people are killed and five others are injured by a methane explosion in Harnai District, Balochistan, Pakistan.
2023-03-2

SpaceX executes a successful test of its "Starhopper" vehicle at Boca Chica. The vehicle was raised 150 metres (490 feet) into the air by its methane-fueled Raptor engine. The engine is planned for use on SpaceX's "Starship" vehicle – a crewed spacecraft capable of interplanetary flight.
2019-08-27

NASA announces that its "Curiosity" rover has detected the largest ever measurement of methane on Mars.
2019-06-24

At least 13 miners, eleven Poles and two Czechs, are killed and 10 injured in a methane explosion in a coal mine in Karvina, Czech Republic.
2018-12-21

A methane gas explosion occurs at a coal mine in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, killing at least eight miners, with another 20 unaccounted for.
2017-03-2

NASA announces the return of the final piece of data collected during "New Horizons"' flyby of Pluto in July 2015. The data, taking about five hours at light speed to travel across 5.5 billion kilometers (3.4 billion miles), arrived at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory on the morning of October 25.
2016-10-27

Astronomers announce the discovery of V774104, the most distant object yet found in the Solar System, a dwarf planet orbiting at three times the distance of Pluto.
2015-11-11

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

New images of the dwarf planet Pluto reveal rapid changes on its surface.
2010-02-5