Acceleration of the IKAROS spacecraft by solar pressure has been confirmed.
The Planck spacecraft, designed to observe the cosmic microwave in unprecedented detail, releases its first all sky map.
After seven years in space, the Hayabusa mission has come to an end.
The science team for the Kepler spacecraft announces the discovery of 306 new extrasolar planets.
The company SpaceX successfully launches the Falcon 9, a rocket powerful enough to carry manned capsules, into orbit.
As expected, the Mars Phoenix Lander fails to reestablish contact, and images taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter might show exactly why.
Japan is set to launch the solar sail IKAROS on May 18th at the same time as a spacecraft to Venus.
It is the 20th anniversary since the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope.
The White House outlines changes to long-term plans for NASA concerning space exploration.
Efforts to extricate the Mars Spirit Rover from a sand trap have been abandoned.