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Astrophysics

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

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...

Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a joint NASA/ASI mission, has uncovered important new information regarding blazars, supermassive black holes feeding off of surrounding material. More...

Heliophysics

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.

The ASO-S mission to study solar flares and CMEs launched on 08 October 2022.

Lunar and Planetary Science

Lucy, the NASA mission outbound to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, successfully flew within 430 km of the main belt asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh on 01 ovember at 16:54 UT (12:54 pm EDT) and discovered that Dinkinesh is a binary system with a small moon.

The Psyche mission launched on Friday, 13 October 13, at 14:19:43 UT (10:19:43 EDT) to begin its six-year journey to the asteroid 16 Psyche. More...

The OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule landed on 24 September at 14:52 UT (10:52 a.m. EDT). Preliminary examination indicates the sample contains water and a high level of carbon. For more, see the NASA Press Release.