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Astrophysics

NASA's SPHEREx mission was successfully launched from Vandenberg launch facility at 03:10 UT 12 March.

JAXA's XRISM mission was successfully launched at 23:42 UT 06 September 2023.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope released its latest deep field image, featuring never-before-seen details in a region of space known as Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744). More...

Heliophysics

NASA's PUNCH mission, consisting of four spacecraft to make observations of the sun, was successfully launched at 03:10 UT on 12 March.

The Parker Solar Probe made its 15^th perihelion pass of the Sun, at a distance of 0.06 AU, on 17 March 2023.

ESA's Solar Orbiter reached its 6^th perihelion, at 0.29 AU, on 10 April 2023.

Lunar and Planetary Science

128 new moons have been discovered around Saturn, bringing the total number of natural saturnian satellites to 274. More.....

The Blue Ghost Mission 1 ended its mission as planned, about 5 hours after local sunset. The last message was received at about 23:15 UT (7:15 p.m. EDT) on 16 March. For more, see the NASA press release.

The ESA Hera mission flew within 5000 km of Mars and 300 km of the small moon Deimos on March 12 on its way to the Didymos-Dimorphos asteroid system.

The Intuitive Machines 2 (PRIME 1) lunar lander touched down in the Mons Mouton region near the Moon's south pole on March 6 at roughly 17:30 UT (12:30 p.m. EST), but tipped on its side during landing and was not able to produce enough power to maintain heating and operations.