The satellite discovered during the first asteroid encounter of NASA’s Lucy mission has an official…
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NASA’s Lucy Surprise Observation of 1st-ever Contact Binary Orbiting Asteroid It turns out there is…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has revealed that the asteroid Dinkinesh is a binary system. The flyby…
A new study reveals that the Moon’s permanently shadowed regions are younger than previously estimated.…
A new study suggests impact-driven mixing of mantle materials could create current mantle composition. Southwest…
Southwest Research Institute scientists are studying the asteroid Psyche using infrared telescopes, aiming to understand…
NASA has announced the continuation of the New Horizons mission, focusing on collecting unique heliophysics…
These “Building blocks” of this Kuiper belt object may point to key details of streaming…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft provides its first glimpse of asteroid Dinkinesh. Over a span of two…
Remote-sensing data will complement Juno spacecraft’s in situ observations. The Space Telescope Science Institute recently…
Models show Venus’ superheated core could produce extended volcanism and long-lived resurfacing. A Southwest Research…
SwRI Scientist Awarded JWST Cycle 2 Observations of Enceladus A pair of scientists from the…
Waves produced by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities transfer energy in the solar system. A team led by…
The Southwest Research Institute’s Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS), part of the ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer…
Southwest Research Institute helped find evidence for phosphorus in the liquid water ocean beneath the…
Scientists Unveil Solutions to Enigmatic Radar Characteristics of Jupiter and Saturn’s Moons A collaborative investigation…
Pathfinding exercise paves the way for extensive US observations in 2024. The Southwest Research Institute…
NASA’s Lucy mission captured its first views of four Jupiter Trojan asteroids, with observations helping…