Liquid Water Confirmed Beneath Martian South Polar Cap
A Southwest Research Institute scientist measured the properties of ice-brine mixtures as cold as -145 degrees Fahrenheit (-98 degrees Celsius) to help confirm that salty…
A Southwest Research Institute scientist measured the properties of ice-brine mixtures as cold as -145 degrees Fahrenheit (-98 degrees Celsius) to help confirm that salty…
Discovery Could Point to a New Class of “Stealth” Ocean Worlds A study by the Southwest Research Institute revealed that Mimas, Saturn’s innermost moon, likely…
Full-scale turbomachinery for a supercritical carbon dioxide power system has been developed by Southwest Research Institute, enhancing concentrated solar power plants by increasing efficiency and…
Using New Horizons, researchers determined the galactic Lyman-alpha background is 20 times dimmer beyond Pluto compared to Earth, a first in measuring the Milky Way’s…
Where will you be and what will you be up to in August of 2027? What about March of 2033? NASA knows exactly where the…
SwRI’s Levison, Olkin lead the mission to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is encapsulated in a protective fairing atop an Atlas V rocket, awaiting…
When Pluto passed in front of a star on the night of August 15, 2018, a Southwest Research Institute-led team of astronomers had deployed telescopes…
NASA has funded a five-year outreach program in association with the Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH), a solar mission led by Southwest…
Scientists have used data from the Southwest Research Institute-led Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission to explain the presence of energetic heavy elements in galactic cosmic rays…
On July 23, 2021, the Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission achieved an important milestone, passing its latest NASA review and entering…
The impactor believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other life forms on Earth some 66 million years ago likely came from the outer…
In the 1970s four spacecraft began their one-way trips out of our Solar System. As the first human-built objects to ever venture into interstellar space,…
The first spacecraft to leave the Solar System carried with them messages from Earth for any intelligent life that may one day encounter them. The…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing of both solar panels, the final step in checking out these critical spacecraft components in preparation…
UVS images faint auroral rings that likely originate at edge of gas giant’s magnetosphere. The SwRI-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) orbiting Jupiter aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft…
Jovian jet streams above the cloud tops measured using the aftermath of comet collision. Working with a team led by French astronomers, Southwest Research Institute…
Layers of ice and rock obviate the need for “habitable zone” and shield life against threats. SwRI researcher theorizes worlds with underground oceans may be…
On February 22, 1906, German astrophotographer Max Wolf helped reshape our understanding of the solar system. Again. Born in 1863, Wolf had a habit of…