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Astrophysics

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is now fully deployed as of 1:17 p.m. EST, Saturday, 08 January 2022. More...

NASA's Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) was successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center on 09 December 2021. More...

Heliophysics

Voyager 2 became the second spacecraft (the first was Voyager 1) to escape the heliosphere and enter insterstellar space. More...

The Parker Solar Probe made its first perihelion pass on 05 November 2018, coming within 25 million km of the Sun. The probe will orbit the Sun over the course of the next seven years, ultimately coming closer than 7 million km from the Sun's surface.

Lunar and Planetary Science

The CAPSTONE lunar mission launch is now scheduled for no earlier than 28 June at 09:55 UT (5:55 a.m. EDT). Live stream of the launch is available on NASA TV. More....

The NASA Psyche mission launch, scheduled for this September/October, has been delayed indefinitely. Options to launch in 2023 or 2024 are being considered.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) has returned images showing the double impact crater formed by an unidentified booster rocket stage that hit the Moon on March 4. For the images and more information, see the LROC post.

The James Webb Space Telescope will be releasing its first science images and data on July 12 at 10:30 a.m. EDT. For more, see the NASA Press Release and the Webb First Images site.