The New Solar Telescope (NST) in Big Bear is the first facility-class an off-axis solar telescope built in the US in a generation. The NST is in regular operation with adaptive optics (AO) correcting the light currently feeding photometric and near-IR polarimetric systems, as well as an imaging spectrograph. In this presentation I will review the existing and planned NST instrumentation and improvements. In the second part of my presentation I will review scientific results and findings based on the NST data.