2021
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Events
- February 17 – Scientists report the first sequencing of DNA from animal remains more than a million years old – in this case of a mammoth.
- March 5 – NASA names the landing site of the Perseverance rover in Jezero crater as "Octavia E. Butler Landing".
- May 14 – The China National Space Administration lands its Zhurong mission spacecraft at Utopia Planitia on Mars, making China the second nation to deliver a rover to the planet.
- July 26 – The Galileo Project is launched. The project seeks to gather and report scientific evidence of extraterrestrials or extraterrestrial technology on or near Earth via telescope technology.
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