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In the News – 2020

12.21.2020 – NASA's AIM Sees First Night-Shining Clouds of Antarctic Summer

12.21.2020 – This May Be the First Complete Observation of a Nanoflare

12.16.2020 – Scientists Use NASA Data to Predict Appearance of Dec. 14 Eclipse

12.09.2020 – Researchers get a Look at the Sun's Dusty Environment

12.10.2020 – Eclipse 2017 Shines Light on the Sun-Earth Connection

12.10.2020 – Solar Orbiter: Turning Pictures into Physics

12.09.2020 – NASA Exploration Mission Integral to 2020 National Space Policy

12.02.2020 – ESA/NASA's Sun-Observing SOHO Mission Celebrates a Quarter-Century in Space

12.01.2020 – NASA Highlights New Findings, Upcoming Missions at Virtual AGU Meeting

11.30.2020 – Solar Superstorms of the Past Help NASA Scientists Understand Risks for Satellites

11.19.2020 – Lunar Gateway Instruments to Improve Weather Forecasting for Artemis Astronauts

11.18.2020 – 16-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery Solved, Revealing Stellar Missing Link

11.13.2020 – Aurora-Chasing Citizen Scientists Help Discover A New Feature of STEVE

11.04.2020 – NASA Missions Help Pinpoint the Source of a Unique X-ray, Radio Burst

10.30.2020 – New Evidence Our Neighborhood in Space Is Stuffed With Hydrogen

10.28.2020 – Two Views of a Sungrazing Comet

10.26.2020 – New NASA Posters Feature Cosmic Frights for Halloween

10.19.2020 – NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Catches a Lunar Transit

10.08.2020 – A New Look at Sunspots is Helping NASA Scientists Understand Major Flares and Life Around Other Stars

10.07.2020 – New Research Explores How Super Flares Affect Planets' Habitability

10.05.2020 – NASA's TESS Creates a Cosmic Vista of the Northern Sky

10.01.2020 – ‘Echo Mapping’ in Faraway Galaxies Could Measure Vast Cosmic Distances

09.30.2020 – Search for New Worlds at Home With NASA's Planet Patrol Project

09.30.2020 – Solar Orbiter Releases First Data to the Public

09.21.2020 – NASA's IRIS Spots Nanojets: Shining Light On Heating the Solar Corona

09.17.2020 – What Will Solar Cycle 25 Look Like?

09.16.2020 – NASA Missions Spy First Possible ‘Survivor’ Planet Hugging White Dwarf Star

09.15.2020 – How Scientists Around the World track the Solar Cycle

09.15.2020 – Solar Cycle 25 Is Here. NASA, NOAA Scientists Explain What That Means

09.01.2020 – Finding Magnetic Eruptions in Space, With an Al Assistant

08.28.2020 – NASA Selects Proposals for New Space Environment Missions

08.18.2020 – Citizen Scientists Discover Dozens of New Cosmic Neighbors in NASA Data

08.17.2020 – NASA Researchers Track Slowly Splitting ‘Dent’ in Earth's Magnetic Field

08.14.2020 – Aurora Mysteries Unlocked With NASA's THEMIS Mission

08.13.2020 – NASA Satellite's Lone View of Betelgeuse Reveals More Strange Behavior

08.11.2020 – NASA's Planet Hunter Completes Its Primary Mission

08.05.2020 – Uncovering Our Solar System's Shape

07.31.2020 – NASA Sun Data Helps New Model Predict Big Solar Flares

07.16.2020 – Runaway Star Might Explain Black Hole's Disappearing Act

07.16.2020 – ESA/NASA's Solar Orbiter Returns First Data, Snaps Closest Pictures of the Sun

07.14.2020 – ‘Disk Detective’ Needs Your Help Finding Disks Where Planets Form

07.13.2020 – NASA, ESA to Release First Images from Solar Orbiter Mission

07.10.2020 – Two Bizarre Brown Dwarfs Found With Citizen Scientists' Help

07.10.2020 – NASA's Parker Solar Probe Spies Newly-Discovered Comet NEOWISE

07.08.2020 – Comet NEOWISE Sizzles as It Slides by the Sun, Providing a Treat for Observers

06.30.2020 – NASA's TESS Delivers New Insights Into an Ultrahot World

06.30.2020 – NASA Spacecraft Helps Identify Solar Radiation Patterns That Expose the Moon

06.24.2020 – NASA's TESS. Spitzer Missions Discover a World Orbiting a Unique Young Star

06.24.2020 – Watch a 10-Year Time Lapse of Sun From NASA's SDO

06.22.2020 – NASA Scientist Simulates Sunsets on Other Worlds

06.18.2020 – Are Planets with Oceans Common in the Galaxy? It's Likely, NASA Scientists Find

06.15.2020 – Solar Orbiter Makes First Close Approach to the Sun

06.12.2020 – NASA's Parker Solar Probe Teams Up With Observatories Around Solar System for 4th Solar Encounter

06.11.2020 – NASA's IBEX Charts 11 Years of Change at Boundary to Interstellar Space

05.29.2020 – New Sunspots Potentially Herald Increased Solar Activity

05.28.2020 – NASA's AIM Spots First Arctic Noctilucent Clouds of the Season

05.14.2020 – Why Clouds Form Near Black Holes

05.13.2020 – NASA's TESS Enables Breakthrough Study of Perplexing Stellar Pulsations

04.30.2020 – AAS Names 29 NASA-Affiliated Legacy Fellows

04.29.2020 – New Insight Into Parker Solar Probe's Early Observations

04.28.2020 – NASA's Swift Satellite Celebrates 15 Years of Multiwavelength Science

04.27.2020 – NASA's Swift Mission Tallied Water From Interstellar Comet Borisov

04.21.2020 – Nine Reasons We're Grateful to Live on Earth

04.15.2020 – Earth-Size, Habitable Zone Planet Hidden in Early NASA Kepler Data

04.13.2020 – SwRI-Led PUNCH Mission Achieves Milestone

04.02.2020 – NASA Science Keeps the Lights On

03.16.2020 – NASA Selects Proposals to Study Volatile Stars, Galaxies, Cosmic Collisions

03.12.2020 – NASA's MMS Marks its 5th Year Breaking Records in Space

02.11.2020 – Ten Things We've Learned About the Sun From NASA's SDO This Decade

02.10.2020 – Solar Orbiter Launch Takes Solar Science to New Heights

02.07.2020 – ESA, NASA's Solar Orbiter Soon to Launch on Voyage to Sun

02.04.2020 – How ESA-NASA's Solar Orbiter Beats the Heat

02.03.2020 – Spots, Waves and Wind: A Solar Science Timeline

01.27.2020 – New Mission Will Take 1st Peek at Sun's Poles

01.24.2020 – How Earth Climate Models Help Scientists Picture Life on Unimaginable Worlds

01.23.2020 – NASA Announces Two Media Briefings on Latest Solar Mission

01.23.2020 – NESSI Emerges as New Tool for Exoplanet Atmospheres

01.08.2020 – A New Tool for ‘Weighting’ Unseen Planets

01.06.2020 – Surprise! TESS Shows Ancient North Star Undergoes Eclipses

01.06.2020 – NASA's TESS Mission Uncovers Its 1st World With Two Stars

01.06.2020 – NASA Planet Hunter Finds its 1st Earth-size Habitable-zone World