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Astrophysics

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has 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 will make its 15^th perihelion pass of the Sun, at a distance of 0.06 AU, on 17 March 2023.

ESA's Solar Orbiter will reach 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 ESA BepiColombo mission will make its third flyby of Mercury on 20 June.

The crash site of the Hakuto-R lunar mission has been found in the Atlas crater in the Mare Frigoris region. Impact occurred on 25 April and the site was found in images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera on 26 April.

On May 12, NASA called for an end to the Lunar Flashlight mission, due to the inability of its thrusters to put it into the required lunar orbit. For more, see the JPL Press Release.