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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 OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule landed successfully on 24 September at 14:52 UT (10:52 a.m. EDT). It was picked up by helicopter and transported to a temporary clean room, and then flown to Johnson Space Center in Houston. More....

The JAXA (Japan) Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) mission launched on September 6 at 23:42:11 UT (7:42:11 p.m. EDT) and successfully separated 47 minutes later to begin its roughly 5 month journey to the lunar surface.

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chandrayaan 3 Vikram lander touched down successfully on the Moon on 23 August at about 12:33 UT (8:33 a.m. EDT) and is operating on the surface.