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In the News – 2016

12.29.16 – NASA's NEOWISE Mission Spies One Comet, Maybe Two
12.14.16 – Revolutions in Understanding the Ionosphere, Earth's Interface to Space
12.02.16 – NASA's AIM Observes Early Noctilucent Ice Clouds Over Antarctica
12.01.16 – NASA's Sun-Observing IRIS Mission
11.30.16 – ScienceCasts: The Mystery of Coronal Heating
11.27.16 – No Balloons for JPL's Birthday, Just a ‘Satelloon’
11.22.16 – Two-year extensions confirmed for ESA's science missions
11.14.16 – NASA Finds Unusual Origins of High-Energy Electrons
11.14.16 – “Cosmic Whistle” Packs a Surprisingly Energetic Punch
11.10.16 – NASA Space Telescopes Pinpoint Elusive Brown Dwarf
11.04.16 – NASA's NavCube Could Support an X-ray Communications Demonstration in Space — A NASA First
11.02.16 – When Computers Were Human
10.31.16 – Rains of Terror on Exoplanet HD 189733b
10.27.16 – NASA Missions Harvest a Passel of ‘Pumpkin’ Stars
10.25.16 – Study: Planet Orbiting Nearest Star Could be Habitable
10.21.16 – NASA, Citizen Scientists Discover Potential New Hunting Ground for Exoplanets
10.20.16 – Tracking Waves from Sunspots Gives New Solar Insight
10.16.16 – Proxima Centauri Might Be More Sunlike Than We Thought
10.05.16 – NASA's TESS Mission Will Provide Exciting Exoplanet Targets for Years to Come
09.29.16 – NASA's Fermi Finds Record-breaking Binary in Galaxy Next Door
09.16.16 – NASA-Funded Scientific Ballooners Wrap Up Fourth and Final Campaign
09.15.16 – Studies Find Echoes of Black Holes Eating Stars
09.12.16 – NASA's THEMIS Sees Auroras Move to the Rhythm of Earth's Magnetic Field
08.24.16 – ESO Discovers Earth-Size Planet in Habitable Zone of Nearest Star
08.24.16 – NASA's WISE, Fermi Missions Reveal a Surprising Blazar Connection
08.17.16 – NASA-Funded Balloon Mission Begins Fourth Campaign
08.12.16 – NASA's Fermi Mission Expands its Search for Dark Matter
08.05.16 – IRIS Spots Plasma Rain on Sun's Surface
07.28.16 – Chorus of Black Holes Sings in X-Rays
07.27.16 – NASA's Next Planet Hunter Will Look Closer to Home
07.27.16 – Loneliest Young Star Seen by Spitzer and WISE
07.19.16 – X Marks the Spot for Milky Way Formation
07.12.16 – Black Hole Makes Material Wobble Around It
07.11.16 – ‘Frankenstein’ Galaxy Surprises Astronomers
07.07.16 – An Unexpectedly Calm Hot Gas in the Center of the Perseus Cluster
07.06.16 – Hitomi Mission Charts Hot Winds of a Galaxy Cluster for the First Time
06.22.16 – X-ray Echoes of a Shredded Star Provide Close-up of ‘Killer’ Black Hole
06.21.16 – Astronomers Find the First ‘Wind Nebula’ Around a Magnetar
06.08.16 – NASA's NICER Mission Arrives at Kennedy Space Center
05.19.16 – NASA Mini-Balloon Mission Maps Migratory Magnetic Boundary
05.18.16 – IRIS Releases New Imagery of Mercury Transit
05.10.16 – Swept Up in the Solar Wind
04.28.16 – NASA's Fermi Telescope Helps Link Cosmic Neutrino to Blazar Blast
04.28.16 – Operation Plan of X-ray Astronomy Satellite ASTRO-H (Hitomi)
04.21.16 – Microscopic “Timers” Reveal Likely Source of Galactic Space Radiation
04.19.16 – Lone Planetary-Mass Object Found in Family of Stars
04.18.16 – NASA's Fermi Telescope Poised to Pin Down Gravitational Wave Sources
04.07.16 – NASA Celebrates 25 Years of Breakthrough Gamma-ray Science
04.05.2016 – Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft Delivers a Second Year of Data
03.30.16 – INTEGRAL sets limits on gamma rays from merging black holes
02.29.16 – INTEGRAL Announcement of Opportunity (AO-14)
02.26.2016 – NASA's IBEX Observations Pin Down Interstellar Magnetic Field
02.23.16 – Advanced NASA-Developed Instrument Flies on Japan's Hitomi
02.17.16 – New X-ray Space Observatory to Study Black Holes and History of Galaxy Clusters
01.26.16 – INTEGRAL X-rays Earth's aurora
01.15.16 – Most Luminous Galaxy Is Ripping Itself Apart
01.12.16 – 2016 will be an exciting year for the ICON mission
01.07.16 – NASA's Fermi Space Telescope Sharpens its High-energy Vision
01.05.16 – Runaway Stars Leave Infrared Waves in Space
01.05.16 – Andromeda Galaxy Scanned with High-Energy X-ray Vision