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NASA and Roscosmos sign an agreement to integrate future flights to the International Space Station. The agreement will allow Russian cosmonauts to fly on U.S. spacecraft in return for allowing American astronauts to use Russia's Soyuz spacecraft.
2022-07-15

NASA announces the selection of two new missions to Venus, VERITAS and DAVINCI+, which will launch between 2028 and 2030. They will be the first American spacecraft sent to Venus since the "Magellan" mission in 1989. The missions will focus on mapping the surface of Venus and calculating the atmosphere's composition to better understand Venus's geological history.
2021-06-2

According to a study from researchers at the University of California, Riverside, Venus would be able to support life if Jupiter hadn't altered its orbit around the Sun nearly 4 billion years ago.
2020-10-1

The Jane Greaves-led international scientific team announce that they have detected a gas called phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus that indicates microorganisms may inhabit Earth's inhospitable neighbor. If confirmed, it would be the first known extraterrestrial life.
2020-09-14

SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully docks with the International Space Station (ISS) with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Douglas Hurley joining the existing crew aboard the space station.
2020-05-31

The United Launch Alliance successfully launches the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter (SolO) satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The probe will study the Sun, and in particular its inner heliosphere.
2020-02-9

Expedition 34 Flight Engineers Tom Marshburn, Roman Romanenko and Chris Hadfield dock their Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft to the International Space Station’s Rassvet module.
2012-12-21

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

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency says its probe "Akatsuki" has failed to enter the orbit around Venus.
2010-12-8

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa spacecraft returns to earth near Woomera in northwest South Australia.
2010-06-13