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In the News – Year 2014

12.29.14 – 20 Years of Wind

12.28.14 – The NACA's Space Legacy

12.22.14 – Holiday Lights on the Sun: Imagery of Significant Flare

12.22.14 – Sun Sizzles in High-Energy X-Rays

12.22.14 – NASA Takes Giant Leaps on the Journey to Mars, Eyes Our Home Planet and the Distant Universe, Tests Technologies and Improves the Skies Above in 2014

12.19.14 – Two Mid-Level Flares in 2 Days

12.18.14 – NASA's IMAGE and Cluster Missions Reveal Origin of Theta Auroras

12.18.14 – NASA's SDO Captures Images of 2 Mid-Level Flares

12.17.14 – SDO Records Mid-level Flare on Dec. 16, 2014

12.16.14 – NASA's Sun Watching Observatory Sees Mid-level Solar Flare on Dec. 16, 2014

12.16.14 – NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

12.15.14 – NASA Voyager: ‘Tsunami Wave’ Still Flies Through Interstellar Space

12.15.14 – NASA's Fermi Mission Brings Deeper Focus to Thunderstorm Gamma-rays

12.12.14 – NASA-funded FOXSI to Observe X-Rays From Sun

12.10.14 – The Science of Magnetic Reconnection

12.09.14 – The Science of Magnetic Reconnection

12.08.14 – Scientists Study the Interaction of the Solar Wind and Earth's Atmosphere From Norway

12.04.14 – Sun Emits a Mid-Level Flare on Dec. 4, 2014

11.26.14 – NASA's Van Allen Probes Spot Impenetrable Barrier in Space

11.24.14 – NASA's SDO Shows Moon Transiting the Sun

11.21.14 – NASA Releases Narrated Animation of MMS Launch and Deploy

11.20.14 – Swift Marks 10 Years of Game-changing Astrophysics

11.20.14 – Working life extensions for ESA's science missions

11.19.14 – Swift Probes an Exotic Object: ‘Kicked’ Black Hole or Mega Star?

11.19.14 – NASA's Swift Satellite Marks 10 Years of Game-changing Astrophysics

11.18.14 – NASA's MMS Spacecraft Begin Pre-Launch Activities in Florida

11.17.14 – NASA's SDO Sees Returning Sunspot Produce Mid-Level Flare

11.17.14 – NASA's Swift Mission Probes an Exotic Object: ‘Kicked’ Black Hole or Mega Star?

11.13.14 – NASA X-ray Telescopes Find Black Hole May Be a Neutrino Factory

11.12.14 – ICON Cleared for Next Development Phase

11.07.14 – NASA's SDO Observes an X-class Flare: Nov. 7, 2014

11.07.14 – TESS Mission Cleared for Next Development Phase

11.06.14 – NASA-Funded Sounding Rocket to Gather 1,500 Sun Images in 5 Minutes

11.06.14 – Third Mid-Level Flare From New Sunspot: Nov. 5

11.04.14 – First Two MMS Observatories Shipped to Florida

10.31.14 – Tracking a Gigantic Sunspot Across the Sun

10.31.14 – NASA Reveals Mysteries of ‘Interstellar’ Space

10.28.14 – More Flares Erupt from Giant Sunspot

10.26.14 – One Giant Sunspot, 6 Substantial Flares

10.23.14 – NASA Creating a Virtual Telescope with Two Small Spacecraft

10.23.14 – Sunset Solar Eclipse

10.23.14 – Safely Watch the October 23 Partial Solar Eclipse

10.23.14 – NASA's SDO Observes Largest Sunspot of the Solar Cycle

10.22.14 – NASA Ultra-Black Nano-Coating to Be Applied to 3-D New Solar Coronagraph

10.22.14 – Third Substantial Solar Flare in 2 Days

10.21.14 – Fermi Finds Starquake Hints in Magnetar ‘Storm’

10.20.14 – SDO Observes an X-class Solar Flare

10.16.14 – NASA's IRIS Helps Explain Mysterious Heating of Solar Atmosphere

10.15.14 – Slow-Growing Galaxies Offer Window to Early Universe

10.14.14 – Slow-Growing Galaxies Offer Window to Early Universe

10.08.14 – Suspected Black Hole Unmasked as Ultraluminous Pulsar

10.08.14 – NASA's NuSTAR Telescope Discovers Shockingly Bright Dead Star

10.08.14 – Nimbus: NASA Remembers First Earth Observations

10.03.14 – SDO Watches Giant Filament on the Sun

10.02.14 – SDO View of M7.3 Class Solar Flare

10.01.14 – Sounding Rocket Launches Successfully - Six Minutes to Study Solar Heating

09.30.14 – Swift Mission Observes Mini Star's Mega-Flares

09.29.14 – NASA's Swift Mission Observes Mega Flares from a Mini Star

09.29.14 – NASA's Releases Images of a Mid-level Solar Flare

09.26.14 – CME WEEK: What To See in CME Images

09.25.14 – NASA's SDO Sees an Autumnal Lunar Transit

09.25.14 – How NASA Watches CMEs

09.24.14 – CME Week: Mapping the Journey of a Giant Coronal Mass Ejection

09.23.14 – CME Week: Coronal Mass Ejections at Mars

09.22.14 – The Difference Between Flares and CMEs

09.22.14 – Preview MMS Spacecraft Before They Ship for Launch

09.21.14 – CME Week: The Difference Between Flares and CMEs

09.17.14 – NASA Releases IRIS Footage of X-class Flare

09.17.14 – Mystery of rare 5-hour space explosion explained with help from US/Russia and US/UK/Italy satellites

09.16.14 – Pulse of a Dead Star Powers Intense Gamma Rays

09.11.14 – NASA Research Helps Unravel Mysteries Of The Venusian Atmosphere

09.11.14 – UPDATED: A Significant Flare Surges Off the Sun

09.09.14 – NASA Chat: Aurora Season

09.04.14 – More Than Meets the Eye: NASA Scientists Listen to Data

09.03.14 – Researchers Discover New Clues to Determining the Solar Cycle

09.03.14 – STEREO Still Providing Detailed Solar Imagery

08.29.14 – Two Years After Launch, NASA's Van Allen Probes Deliver New Science and Findings

08.28.14 – Researchers Look Into the Heart of a Solar Storm

08.27.14 – INTEGRAL catches dead star exploding in a blaze of glory

08.25.14 – SDO Captures Images of a Late Summer Flare

08.21.14 – Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton

08.20.14 – How the Sun Caused an Aurora This Week

08.20.14 – Why NASA Studies the Ultraviolet Sun

08.14.14 – NASA Scientist to Discuss “The Moody Sun” at Library of Congress Lecture

08.12.14 – NASA's NuSTAR Sees Rare Blurring of Black Hole Light

08.06.14 – Monitoring Solar Activity with SDO

08.01.14 – Best Evidence Yet For Coronal Heating Theory

07.31.14 – NuSTAR Celebrates Two Years of Science in Space

07.31.14 – NASA's Fermi Satellite Finds Hints of Starquakes in Magnetar ’Storm’

07.30.14 – NASA's IceCube No Longer On Ice

07.28.14 – NASA's SDO Observes a Lunar Transit

07.23.14 – Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012

07.23.14 – NASA Voyager Statement About Solar Wind Models

07.23.14 – NEOWISE Spots a Comet That Looked Like an Asteroid

07.22.14 – NASA-Funded Mission To Study the Sun's Energy

07.22.14 – NASA's Fermi Finds A ‘Transformer’ Pulsar

07.17.14 – Canada Contributes to NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission

07.15.14 – NASA's Van Allen Probes Show How to Accelerate Electrons

07.11.14 – Out of An Hours-long Explosion, A Stand-In For The First Stars

07.10.14 – NASA-Funded Mission To Study the Sun's Energy

07.09.14 – NASA MESSENGER and STEREO Measurements Open New Window Into High- Energy Processes on the Sun

07.08.14 – SDO Spots a Summer Solar Flare

07.07.14 – Sun Sends More ‘Tsunami Waves’ to Voyager 1

07.03.14 – Comet Pan-STARRS Marches Across the Sky

07.03.14 – NASA's STEREO Entering New Stage of Operations

07.03.14 – Q & A for Operations of STEREO During Superior Conjunction

07.02.14 – Iron ‘Fingerprints’ Point Astronomers to Supernova Suspects

06.27.14 – Puffing Sun Births Reluctant Eruption

06.27.14 – NASA's IRIS Solar Observatory After 1 Year in Space

06.25.14 – Sun's Atmosphere Larger Than Previously Observed

06.19.14 – NASA's Swift Satellite Tallies Water Production of Mars-bound Comet

06.18.14 – NASA's Science Mission Directorate Cubesat Initiative

06.16.14 – NASA's MESSENGER Spots Giant Space Weather Effects at Mercury

06.11.14 – Sun Emits 3 X-class Flares in 2 Days

06.10.14 – SDO Sees 2 Summer Solar Flares

06.09.14 – Asteroid Discovered by NASA Passes Earth Safely

06.03.14 – Black Hole ‘Batteries’ Keep Blazars Going and Going

05.30.14 – A First for NASA's IRIS: Observing Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material

05.30.14 – Citizen Scientists Successfully Communicate with Spacecraft

05.27.14 – Swift satellite gets ringing endorsement from NASA

05.22.14 – NASA's WISE Findings Poke Hole in Black Hole ‘Doughnut’ Theory

05.21.14 – Supercomputers Help Reveal the Sun's Hidden Mysteries

05.15.14 – MMS Movie Trailer: Four Spacecraft, One Mission - Magnetic Reconnection

05.14.14 – MMS Narrated Orbit Viz: Unlocking The Secrets of Magnetic Reconnection

05.14.14 – MAVEN Will Look at Key Player in Mars Atmosphere Loss

05.12.14 – NASA Administrator Visits Goddard, Discusses MMS

05.08.14 – Mid-level Solar Flare Erupts from the Sun

05.07.14 – NASA Telescopes Coordinate Best-Ever Flare Observations

05.05.14 – NASA Sounding Rocket to Study Interplanetary Medium

05.02.14 – Carrington-class CME Narrowly Misses Earth

04.25.14 – X-class Flare Erupts from Sun on April 24

04.25.14 – NASA's Spitzer and WISE Telescopes Find Close, Cold Neighbor of Sun

04.24.14 – NASA's BARREL Returns Successful from Antarctica

04.23.14 – High-Voltage Transmission Lines to Act as Antenna in First-of-its-Kind NASA Space-Weather Project

04.23.14 – Van Allen Probes Achieves Mission Success

04.23.14 – NEOWISE Resumes Science Data Collection

04.18.14 – NASA's MMS Observatories Stacked For Testing

04.18.14 – Sun Emits a Mid-level Solar Flare

04.18.14 – M7-class Solar Flare Observed by SDO

04.17.14 – Bright Points in Sun's Atmosphere Mark Patterns Deep In Its Interior

04.16.14 – Unexpected Teleconnections in Noctilucent Clouds

04.14.14 – ISEE-3: An Old Friend Comes to Visit Earth

04.11.14 – NASA Highlights Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission at Local Fair

04.10.14 – Appearance of Night-Shining Clouds Has Increased

04.03.14 – Take the Plunge: LADEE Impact Challenge — Submissions Now Closed

04.03.14 – Fermi Data Tantalize With New Clues To Dark Matter

04.02.14 – NASA Releases Images of M-class Solar Flare

03.31.14 – NASA Releases Images of X-class Solar Flare

03.26.14 – The Search for Seeds of Black Holes

03.24.14 – NASA Education Event Highlights Mission to Study Magnetic Reconnection

03.19.14 – NASA's Van Allen Probes Reveal Zebra Stripes in Space

03.18.14 – STEREO Studies Extreme Space Weather

03.18.14 – NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Solar Orbiter Mission

03.13.14 – Mid-Level Solar Flare Seen by NASA's SDO

03.07.14 – New NASA Van Allen Probes Observations Helping To Improve Space Weather Models

03.07.14 – NASA's WISE Survey Finds Thousands of New Stars, But No ‘Planet X’

03.06.14 – NASA's THEMIS Discovers New Process that Protects Earth from Space Weather

03.05.14 – NASA Invites Children, Families to Learn about Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

03.04.14 – NASA Releases Image of GREECE Mission Launching Into Aurora

02.28.14 – 2014 Spring Eclipse Season Starts for NASA's SDO

02.28.14 – Coming Around Again: Giant Sunspot Makes Third Trip Across the Sun

02.25.14 – NASA Embraces Challenge of Building 4 Spacecraft

02.25.14 – NASA's SDO Shows Images of Significant Solar Flare

02.24.14 – INTEGRAL Announcement of Opportunity (AO-12)

02.21.14 – NASA's IRIS Spots Its Largest Solar Flare

02.20.14 – NASA Researcher Finds Planet-Sized Space Weather Explosions at Venus

02.20.14 – With A Deadly Embrace, ‘Spidery’ Pulsars Consume Their Mates

02.19.14 – RXTE Reveals the Cloudy Cores of Active Galaxies

02.19.14 – NASA's NuSTAR Untangles Mystery of How Stars Explode

02.13.14 – NASA Hosts Media Teleconference About Supernovas

02.13.14 – NASA's IBEX Helps Paint Picure of the Magnetic System Beyond the Solar Wind

02.11.14 – Craig Pollock - Chasing the Northern Lights

02.11.14 – NASA Video Recaps SDO's Year Four

02.10.14 – NASA's GREECE Mission To Attempt Launch Late February

02.06.14 – A BARREL of Fun in Antarctica

02.04.14 – NASA-funded Science Balloons Launch in Antarctica

02.04.14 – Sun Emits Mid-Level Solar Flare

01.31.14 – NASA Goddard Announces Winners of AMS, AGU and AAS Honors

01.30.14 – NASA's SDO Sees a Solar Flare and a Lunar Transit

01.30.14 – NASA's SDO Sees Lunar Transit

01.30.14 – NASA-Sponsored ‘Disk Detective’ Lets Public Search for New Planetary Nurseries

01.29.14 – Where the Wild Stars Are

01.29.14 – LRO Snaps a Picture of LADEE

01.28.14 – NASA Preparing for 2014 Comet Watch at Mars

01.26.14 – MMS: Frequently Asked Questions

01.24.14 – Spacecraft Take Aim at Nearby Supernova

01.23.14 – NEOWISE Celebrates First Month of Operations After Reactivation

01.23.14 – NASA Spacecraft Take Aim at Nearby Supernova

01.18.14 – NASA Preparing for 2014 Comet Watch at Mars

01.10.14 – Weak CME Arrives and Sparks Aurora

01.09.14 – Internet Radio Provides Musical Space-Weather Reports from NASA's LRO Mission

01.09.14 – Dead Star and Distant Black Holes Dazzle in X-Rays

01.08.14 – Space Radiation Can Affect Rocket Launches

01.08.14 – NASA Has Made Contact with Firefly Cubesat

01.07.14 – NASA Releases Images of January Solar Flare

01.07.14 – NASA's SDO Sees Giant January Sunspots

01.07.14 – NASA's Swift Catches X-ray Action at Milky Way's Center

01.07.14 – Recently Reactivated NASA Spacecraft Spots Its First New Asteroid

01.06.14 – NASA's Fermi Makes First Gamma-ray Study of a Gravitational Lens

01.02.14 – More BARREL Balloons Take to the Skies

01.02.14 – Two Solar Flares Say Goodbye 2013 and Welcome 2014