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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 Lucy mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids launched successfully on 16 October at 09:34 UT (5:34 a.m. EDT). For more, see the NASA Press Release

The James Webb Space Telescope has arrived by boat in French Guiana. It is scheduled to launch from Kourou on 18 December. For more detail see the NASA Press Release.

ESA's Bepi-Colombo mission made its first Mercury flyby on 1 October, coming within 199 km of the surface at 23:34:41 UT (7:34:41 p.m. EDT) and taking its first pictures of the planet. For more, see the ESA Press Release.