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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

The Japanese Space Agency Resilience (Hakuto-M2) lunar lander and rover and the Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander are launching together in a six-day launch window opening on 15 January 2025 at 06:11 UT (1:11 a.m. EST). Live launch coverage will be available on NASA TV. For more, see the NASA news release.

The European Space Agency Bepi-Colombo mission made its sixth Mercury flyby on 08 January.