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In the News – Year 2018

12.18.18 – NASA Satellites Spot Young Star in Growth Spurt

12.17.18 – The Power of the Unresolved

12.14.18 – The Life and Death of a Planetary System

12.12.18 – Preparing for Discovery With NASA's Parker Solar Probe

12.11.18 – NASA's First Stellar Observatory, OAO 2, Turns 50

12.11.18 – Gravity Assist: The Sun's Mysteries with Thomas Zurbuchen

12.10.18 – Yes, the Sun Is Less Active. No, You're Not Likely to Notice

11.30.18 – Charting a Course for Astronaut Safety as NASA Launches to the Moon and to Mars

11.29.18 – NASA's Fermi Traces the History of Starlight Across the Cosmos

11.27.18 – NASA Scientist to Discuss ‘The Science of Space: Heliophysics and the Parker Solar Probe’ at Library of Congress Lecture

11.20.18 – NASA Retires Prolific Solar Observatory After 16 Years

11.15.18 – The Most Luminous Galaxy Is Eating Its Neighbors

11.15.18 – NASA Keeps Watch Over Space Explosions

11.14.18 – Extended life for ESA's science missions

11.08.18 – Multimessenger Links to NASA's Fermi Mission Show How Luck Favors the Prepared

11.07.18 – Cosmic Detective Work: Why We Care About Space Rocks

11.07.18 – Parker Solar Probe Reports Good Status After Close Solar Approach

11.06.18 – NASA's ICON to Explore Boundary Between Earth and Space

11.02.18 – New Insights on Comet Tails Are Blowing in the Solar Wind

10.29.18 – Parker Solar Probe Breaks Record, Becomes Closest Spacecraft to Sun

10.25.18 – Rocky? Habitable? Sizing up a Galaxy of Planets

10.24.18 – Parker Solar Probe Looks Back at Home

10.22.18 – Why NASA Watches Airglow, the Colors of the (Upper Atmospheric) Wind

10.17.18 – NASA's Fermi Mission Energizes the Sky With Gamma-ray Constellations

10.17.18 – NASA to Host Briefings, Events for ICON Launch to Study Space Weather

10.17.18 – ICON Launch Briefings and Events

10.16.18 – Counting Down to ICON's Launch

10.16.18 – All in the Family: Kin of Gravitational-Wave Source Discovered

10.16.18 – ‘The Invisible Network’ Podcast - Episode 03: Time

10.15.18 – Missing gamma-ray blobs shed new light on dark matter, cosmic magnetism

10.10.18 – ’Pulsar in a Box’ Reveals Surprising Picture of a Neutron Star's Surroundings

10.04.18 – Parker Solar Probe Changed the Game Before it Even Launched

09.31.18 – NASA Invites Media to View Spacecraft to Study the Frontier of Space

09.25.18 – NASA Is Taking a New Look at Searching for Life Beyond Earth

09.25.18 – Solar Wind and Corona Timeline

09.21.18 – Three NASA Missions Return 1st-Light Data

09.20.18 – NASA Balloon Mission Captures Electric Blue Clouds

09.19.18 – Illuminating First Light Data from Parker Solar Probe

09.17.18 – NASA's TESS Shares First Science Image in Hunt to Find New Worlds

09.17.18 – NASA's GOLD instrument captures its first image of the Earth

09.11.18 – Nicola Fox Takes Helm as Director of NASA's Heliophysics Division

09.10.18 – NASA's SDO Spots 2 Lunar Transits in Space

09.04.18 – NASA-funded Rocket to View Sun with X-Ray Vision

08.31.18 – NASA Invites Media to View Spacecraft to Study the Frontier of Space

08.28.18 – Latest Updates from NASA on IMAGE Recovery

08.27.18 – How Scientists Predicted Corona's Appearance During Aug. 21, 2017, Total Solar Eclipse

08.27.18 – JPL Roles in NASA's Sun-Bound Parker Solar Probe

08.20.18 – NASA Hosts Live Science Chat: One Year After Eclipse 2017

08.14.18 – NASA's NICER Does the Space Station Twist

08.13.18 – Space probe to plunge into fiery corona of the sun

08.12.18 – NASA, ULA Launch Parker Solar Probe on Historic Journey to Touch Sun

08.12.18 – Want to Learn More About the Sun? Here's How:

08.09.18 – NASA's Parker Solar Probe is About to Lift Off

08.08.18 – It's Surprisingly Hard to Go to the Sun

08.06.18 – NASA's Planet-Hunting TESS Catches a Comet Before Starting Science

08.06.18 – NASA to Host Briefings, Events for Aug. 11 Launch to Touch Sun

08.03.18 – Ready for Its Day in the Sun: The SWEAP Investigation

07.30.18 – Parker Solar Probe and the Birth of the Solar Wind

07.30.18 – Princeton in space: Meet ISʘIS, heading to touch the sun

07.30.18 – Symphony of Stars: The Science of Stellar Sound Waves

07.27.18 – NASA's TESS Spacecraft Starts Science Operations

07.27.18 – NASA's Parker Solar Probe and the Curious Case of the Hot Corona

07.26.18 – Enduring ‘Radio Rebound’ Powered by Jets from Gamma-Ray Burst

07.25.18 – Sounds of the Sun

07.20.18 – NASA Prepares to Launch Parker Solar Probe, a Mission to Touch the Sun

07.19.18 – Traveling to the Sun: Why Won't Parker Solar Probe Melt?

07.18.18 – NASA Invites Media to Preview Briefing on Spacecraft that will “Touch” Sun

07.18.18 – Discovering Structure in the Outer Corona

07.12.18 – NASA's Fermi Traces Source of Cosmic Neutrino to Monster Black Hole

07.12.18 – INTEGRAL joins multi-messenger campaign to study high-energy neutrino source

07.11.18 – NASA's TESS Spacecraft Continues Testing Prior to First Observations

07.05.18 – NASA Invites Media to Visit with Spacecraft That Will “Touch” Sun

07.05.18 – Cutting-Edge Heat Shield Installed on NASA's Parker Solar Probe

07.03.18 – NASA's NuSTAR Mission Proves Superstar Eta Carinae Shoots Cosmic Rays

07.02.18 – NASA Invites Media to View Launch of Mission to “Touch” Sun

06.28.18 – NASA Uses Earth as Laboratory to Study Distant Worlds

06.19.18 – Sounding Rocket Takes a Second Look at the Sun

06.15.18 – Revised Launch Date Targeted for Parker Solar Probe

06.11.18 – NASA's Fermi Satellite Celebrates 10 Years of Discoveries

06.06.18 – As Solar Wind Blows, Our Heliosphere Balloons

06.04.18 – NASA's Hi-C Launches to Study Sun's Corona

06.01.18 – NASA Selects Mission to Study Solar Wind Boundary of Outer Solar System

06.01.18 – NEOWISE Thermal Data Reveal Surface Properties of Over 100 Asteroids

05.31.18 – UMD-led Study Shows How Earth Slows the Solar Wind to a Gentle Breeze

05.30.18 – Fermi Status Update

05.29.18 – The Case of the Relativistic Particles Solved with NASA Missions

05.29.18 – NASA Previews Mission to Study Frontier of Space

05.29.18 – The Case of the Relativistic Particles Solved with NASA Missions

05.24.18 – Take a Virtual Trip to a Strange New World with NASA

05.21.18 – More Than 1.1 Million Names Installed on NASA's Parker Solar Probe

05.21.18 – NASA Invites Media to View New Mission to Study the Frontier of Space

05.18.18 – NASA's New Planet Hunter Snaps Initial Test Image, Swings by Moon Toward Final Orbit

05.16.18 – New Views of Sun: 2 Missions Will Go Closer to Our Star Than Ever Before

05.10.18 – NASA's NICER Mission Finds an X-ray Pulsar in a Record-fast Orbit

05.09.18 – NASA Spacecraft Discovers New Magnetic Process in Turbulent Space

05.03.18 – NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer Leaves Scientific ‘Treasure Trove’

05.02.18 – Are Planets Like Those in ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ Really Out There? NASA Plans to Find Out

05.01.18 – NASA's New Dellingr Spacecraft Baselined for Pathfinding CubeSat Mission to Van Allen Belts

04.25.18 – NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer Spacecraft to Re-enter Over Tropics

04.25.18 – NASA Frequently Asked Questions: RXTE Spacecraft Re-entry

04.20.18 – NASA's NEOWISE Asteroid-Hunter Spacecraft — Four Years of Data

04.18.18 – NASA Planet Hunter on Its Way to Orbit

04.18.18 – NASA TV Updates Launch Coverage for Planet-Hunting Mission TESS

04.17.18 – NASA Television to Air Launch of Next Planet-Hunting Mission

04.16.18 – Latest Updates from NASA on IMAGE Recovery

04.13.18 – NASA's TESS Mission Hopes to Find Exoplanets Beyond Our Solar System

04.13.18 – Doug Caldwell Talks About the Data Pipeline for the TESS Mission

04.12.18 – What in the World is an ‘Exoplanet?’

04.12.18 – Gravity Assist: TESS & Exoplanets with Martin Still

04.11.18 – Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Science Data Pipeline

04.10.18 – Our Sun: Three Different Wavelengths

04.09.18 – New Exoplanet Collaboration Hosts Meeting to Explore Molecular Seeds of Life

04.06.18 – NASA's Mission to Touch the Sun Arrives in the Sunshine State

03.28.18 – NASA Prepares to Launch Next Mission to Search Sky for New Worlds

03.28.18 – This is TESS, Our Newest Planet-Hunter

03.21.18 – Media Invited to View NASA Spacecraft That Will Touch the Sun

03.19.18 – NASA to Discuss Upcoming Launch of Next Planet Hunter

03.14.18 – NASA Needs Your Help to Find Steve and Here's How

03.09.18 – Three NASA Satellites Recreate Solar Eruption in 3-D

03.06.18 – Public Invited to Come Aboard NASA's First Mission to Touch the Sun

03.06.18 – Media Invited to Upcoming Launch of NASA's Newest Planet-Hunting Spacecraft

03.05.18 – INTEGRAL Announcement of Opportunity (AO-16)

03.05.18 – Donor star breathes life into zombie companion

02.28.18 – Einstein@Home discovers first millisecond pulsar visible only in gamma rays

02.23.18 – NASA's SDO Reveals How Magnetic Cage on the Sun Stopped Solar Eruption

02.20.18 – Pulsating Aurora Mysteries Uncovered with Help from NASA's THEMIS Mission

02.15.18 – NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Arrives at Kennedy Space Center for Launch

02.14.18 – NASA Invites Media to View TESS Spacecraft

02.13.18 – Eclipse Season Starts for NASA's SDO

02.08.18 – A Detailed Timeline of The IMAGE Mission Recovery

02.02.18 – NASA's Newly Rediscovered IMAGE Mission Provided Key Aurora Research

02.02.18 – NASA Mission Launched; Will Revolutionize Our Understanding of Space Weather

02.01.18 – 2018: A Big Year for NASA's Launch Services Program

01.31.18 – Studying the Van Allen Belts 60 Years After America's First Spacecraft

01.31.18 – Celebrating 60 Years of Groundbreaking U.S. Space Science

01.31.18 – 60 Years Ago: Explorer 1 Becomes America's First Satellite

01.31.18 – Rocket Girls and the Advent of the Space Age

01.31.18 – America's First Satellite Established ‘Foothold in Space’

01.29.18 – NASA Marshall Scientist Wins Top High-Energy Astronomy Prize

01.29.18 – NASA's GOLD Powers on for the First Time

01.29.18 – Cluster measures turbulence in Earth's magnetic environment

01.24.18 – NASA GOLD Mission to Image Earth's Interface to Space

01.23.18 – Celebrating 60 Years of America in Space on Jan. 31

01.23.18 – Explorer 1: The Beginning of American Space Science

01.22.18 – Three types of extreme-energy space particles may have unified origin

01.22.18 – Study shows first evidence of winds outside black holes throughout their mealtimes

01.19.18 – Prepping the Parker Solar Probe for Space

01.18.18 – NASA Team Studies Middle-aged Sun by Tracking Motion of Mercury
01.12.18 – Above and Beyond: NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Surpasses Expectations Flying to New Heights in 2017

01.11.18 – NASA Team First to Demonstrate X-ray Navigation in Space

01.10.18 – NASA's Newly Renamed Swift Mission Spies a Comet Slowdown

01.04.18 – Two Heads Are Better than One: ICON & GOLD Teaming Up To Explore Earth's Interface to Space

01.03.18 – NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Locates Elusive Electron Act

01.02.18 – NASA Briefing Previews Mission to Explore Nearest Reaches of Space