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China National Space Administration probe Chang'e 5 successfully lands at Mons Rümker on the Moon for the first lunar sample-return mission since the Soviet Union's Luna 24.
2020-12-1

Asteroid 3122 Florence, which is roughly 2.7 miles (4.4 kilometers) wide, comes within 4.4 million miles (7 million km) of Earth — approximately 18 times the distance from our planet to the Moon.
2017-09-1

China's unmanned lunar rover Yutu shuts down after exploring the Moon for 31 months.
2016-08-4

Research, published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal "Nature Geoscience", confirms that Mercury's darker than expected crusty exterior is from carbon, likely the remains of the planet's ancient surface crust of graphite, rather than carbon dust from comet impacts as previously postulated.
2016-03-7

SpaceX launches a weather observation satellite, Deep Space Climate Observatory, at 6:03 p.m. EST from Cape Canaveral, Florida (for the US Air Force-NASA-NOAA), but postpones making of a second attempt to land a Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket on a floating platform called the autonomous spaceport drone ship, following the January 10 failure during the SpaceX CRS-5 mission. SpaceX instead, attempts a "mock" soft-landing into the Atlantic ocean
2015-02-11

A newly observed near-Earth asteroid 2013 EC passes Earth within the orbit of the Moon.
2013-03-4

NASA scientists beam a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, the "Mona Lisa", to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a spacecraft orbiting the Moon, marking a first in laser communication.
2013-01-18

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

The moon reaches its closest point to the Earth since March 1993, and will appear 30% brighter and 14% larger than at its furthest point.
2011-03-19

Forty-one scientists publish a paper in "Science" affirming that the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, the large-scale mass extinction of dinosaurs and other lifeforms on Earth ~65.5 million years ago, was caused by an asteroid impact.
2010-03-4