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Oct 28, 2017
US-German 15 year old GRACE mission comes to an end owing to a battery issue,
Following an age-related battery issue on GRACE-2 in September, it became apparent by mid-October that GRACE-2's remaining battery capacity would not be sufficient to operate its science instruments and telemetry transmitter. -
Oct 20, 2017
NASA's Dawn mission gets second extension, spacecraft to remain in orbit around Ceres indefinitely
During this extension, the spacecraft will descend to lower altitudes than ever before at the dwarf planet, which it has been orbiting since March 2015 -
Sep 09, 2016
Nasa launches first mission to collect 'asteroid dust', may hold possible clues to life
Nasa hopes the solar-powered OSIRIS-REx will bring back the largest payload of space samples since the Apollo era of the 1960s and 1970s, -
Feb 27, 2015
NASA spots mysterious bright lights on dwarf planet Ceres as explorer probe nears orbit
The discovery of another bright light on the dwarf planet Ceres has NASA scientists perplexed as the US Dawn probe prepares to enter the orbit of the largest object in the asteroid belt and possibly resolve the mystery. -
Dec 21, 2014
NASA plans solar-powered airships, floating city for manned Venus mission
NASA plans to send solar-powered airships to explore Venus' atmosphere and to eventually establish a permanent human colony in a floating cloud city above the planet. -
Aug 06, 2013
NASA, SAM celebrate Curiosity's birthday the traditional way
On August 5, 2012, PDT, NASA’s Curiosity rover made its perfect landing in the Gale Crater on perhaps the most elusive planet in the universe – -
Dec 18, 2012
Spotting Curiosity on Mars possible
Determining the position of the robot Curiosity will be possible by studying the eclipses of Phobos, the larger of the two moons of Mars... -
Dec 10, 2012
NASA project set to spot huge galaxy clusters
Hundreds of billions of solar systems like ours, comprising planets, asteroids and comets, may be residing in our Milky Way galaxy, which itself ... -
Oct 19, 2012
Rover Curiosity eats first Martian dirt
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity tasted Martian dirt for the first time on Thursday, testing equipment needed to assess if the planet most like Earth ...
