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NASA announces discovery of Earth's subtle electric field, which contributes to the polar wind phenomenon. Its significance as to the emergence of life and complex organisms on Earth, and the planet's physical and chemical properties, are to be analyzed.
2024-08-28

NASA says that its DART spacecraft has successfully altered the orbit of the 520 ft asteroid Dimorphos by around 32 minutes in a demonstration of asteroid impact avoidance.
2022-10-11

NASA says it has received the first message from interstellar space from its "Voyager" 2 spacecraft.
2019-11-4

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

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

NASA publishes LRO images of the two craters on the Moon, where twin GRAIL probes ended their gravity-mapping mission in December 2012.
2013-03-19

NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft crash into a mile-high cliff near the Lunar North Pole to close out a successful mission to map the Moon's gravity field with unprecedented precision.
2012-12-17

NASA announces that the "Voyager 1" spacecraft, launched in 1977, has nearly reached the edge of the Solar System and is imminently to past through the heliosphere into interstellar space.
2012-12-3

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 observes the asteroid YU 55 as it makes a close Earth flyby, passing within 0.85 lunar distances (about 201,700 miles) of the Earth. YU 55 is approximately 400 m across, and is the largest asteroid to make a close pass since 1976.
2011-11-8