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Astrophysics

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is now fully deployed as of 1:17 p.m. EST, Saturday, 08 January 2022. More...

NASA's Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) was successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center on 09 December 2021. More...

Heliophysics

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

An object identified as a spacecraft booster stage impacted the far side of the Moon on Friday, March 4, at roughly 12:26 UT (7:26 a.m. EST). Its exact identification has been disputed. On March 28 the LRO spacecraft orbited over the estimated impact area (roughly 5.2 N, 233.6 E) to obtain images.

The European Space Agency has suspended the ExoMars 2022 mission due to the Russian agression against Ukraine and resulting sanctions. For more, see the ESA Press Release.

The James Webb Space Telescope is continuing to align its mirrors. To follow the mission, see the "Where is Webb?" page.