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Scientists announce that NASA's "Parker Solar Probe" became the first ever spacecraft to enter the stellar corona of the Sun during a flyby in April.
2021-12-14

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite discovers TOI-824b, a Hot Neptune exoplanet that orbits dwarf star TOI-824, which is located 210 light-years away in the constellation Circinus.
2020-08-31

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

Retired NASA astronaut Mark Kelly announces that he will run for the 2020 United States Senate special election in Arizona.
2019-02-12

NASA's "Parker Solar Probe" spacecraft becomes the closest ever sent to the sun, by passing 42.7 million km (26.6 million miles) from the sun's surface. The previous record was set in 1976 by the "Helios 2" spacecraft. Parker's elliptical orbit will eventually take it to within 6.1 million km (3.8 million miles) of the sun.
2018-10-30

NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun, from the US state of California.
2013-06-27

NASA announces new data effectively rules out a 2036 Earth impact for the near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis.
2013-01-13

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 succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the moon.
2011-12-31

NASA delays the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-133, its final mission, due to a circuitry glitch.
2010-11-2