Welcome to our archive of past news articles.
You will find previous articles listed below from most the recent back to our first articles in 1996.

NASA's Swift, Chandra Explore a Youthful 'Star Wreck' [09 April 2013] - While performing an extensive X-ray survey of our galaxy's central regions, NASA's Swift satellite has uncovered the previously unknown remains of a shattered star. The new object, named G306.3-0.9, ranks among the youngest-known supernova remnants in our Milky Way galaxy.

Fermi's Motion Produces a Study in Spirograph [27 February 2013] - NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits our planet every 95 minutes, building up increasingly deeper views of the universe with every circuit. Its wide-eyed Large Area Telescope (LAT) sweeps across the entire sky every three hours, capturing the highest-energy form of light -- gamma rays -- from sources across the universe. These range from supermassive black holes billions of light-years away to intriguing objects in our own galaxy, such as X-ray binaries, supernova remnants and pulsars.