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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

Launch of the EscaPADE dual spacecraft mission to Mars has been postponed from its original window opening 13 October to no earlier than spring 2025. For more information,see the NASA EscaPADE blog.

The European Space Agency Hera mission to the Didymos/Dimorphos asteroid system is scheduled to launch on 07 October at 14:52 UT (10:52 a.m. EDT).

Operations of the JAXA Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) from the lunar surface were officially ended on 23 August, following numerous unsuccessful attempts to contact the lander after its final session on 28 April. For more, see the JAXA Press Release.