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Astrophysics

Observations from HST and the Kepler space telescope have provided evidence for the first moon discovered orbiting a planet outside of our solar system. The discovery was announced on 03 October 2018. The moon may be the size of Neptune, orbiting a planet several times the mass of Jupiter with the designation Kepler-1625b. More...

Heliophysics

The 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 United Arab Emirates Hope Mars mission, scheduled to launch July 14, has been delayed due to weather until July 16 at 20:43 UT (4:43 pm EDT).

The NASA Mars 2020 "Perserverance" rover mission is scheduled to launch on 30 July.

The NASA Parker Solar Probe made its third Venus flyby on 11 July, coming within about 800 km of the planet's surface.