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Astrophysics

The shuttle Atlantis released the Hubble Space Telescope at 08:57 EDT on 19 May 2009 after a successful servicing mission. More....

ESA's Planck and Herschel observatories were successfully launch from Kourou, French Guiana, at 13:12 UTC on Thursday 14 May 2009. They were released separately about 26 minutes after launch on a trajectory toward the Earth's L2 point. More....

NASA's GLAST satellite launched into orbit on 05 June 2008. More....

Heliophysics

NASA's IBEX mission, an Earth-orbiting mission designed to make observations of the solar wind's termination shock using energetic neutral atoms, was launched from a Pegasus XL rocket at 13:48 EDT on 19 October 2008. More...

Lunar and Planetary Science

A large impact of an asteroid or comet on Jupiter has left a visible dark spot in the atmosphere, first seen on 19 July by Anthony Wesley of Australia. The Hubble Space Telescope has returned images of the spot.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) camera has returned its first images of the Moon. For more, see the July 2 NASA Press Release.