A study of Saturn’s largest moon may offer insights for earth
Researchers report significant seasonal variation in Titan's energy budgetCredit: NASA/Cassini/Kevin Gill Scientists studying the weather and climate of Titan, Saturn's ...
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SwRI-built instrument confirms solar wind slows farther away from the Sun
Research could help predict when New Horizons spacecraft will cross the termination shockCredit: Figure courtesy of Southwest Research Institute; background ...
Solving fossil mystery could aid quest for ancient life on Mars
Credit: Sean McMahon The search for evidence of life on Mars could be helped by fresh insights into ancient rocks ...
Satellite broken? Smart satellites to the rescue
Aerospace engineers are developing technology to repair and refuel stranded satellites in space.Credit: Andrew Higley/UC Creative Services When satellites break, ...
Caught in afterglow: 1st detection of Inverse Compton emission from dying gamma-ray burst
Researchers from the Centre for Astro-Particle Physics (CAPP) within the Department of Physics at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) collaborate ...
NASA’s Fermi, swift missions enable a new era in gamma-ray science
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center A pair of distant explosions discovered by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Neil ...
Hubble studies gamma-ray burst with highest energy ever seen
Credit: NASA, ESA and M. Kornmesser NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers a peek at the location of the ...
How LISA pathfinder detected dozens of ‘comet crumbs’
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that included NASA ...
Space-based radar suggests North Korean nuke equivalent to ’17 Hiroshimas’
Credit: ESA / ATG medialab North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2003. It ...
NASA Sending solar power generator developed at Ben-Gurion U to space station
Credit: Ben-Gurion U./Jeffery Gordon NASA Sending Solar Power Generator Developed at Ben-Gurion University to the International Space Station BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL...November ...
Hubble captures a dozen galaxy doppelgangers
Credit: NASA, ESA and E. Rivera-Thorsen (Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics Oslo, Norway) This NASA Hubble Space Telescope photo reveals a ...
SwRI demonstrates balloon-based solar observatory
Low-cost option breaks down barriers to solar researchCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Nov. 7, 2019 -- Southwest Research ...
UCLouvain researcher makes the heart of Mars speak
Credit: UCLouvain For 20 years, Véronique Dehant, a space scientist at University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Royal Observatory of ...
132 grams to communicate with Mars
Credit: UCLouvain Dust storms, ionising cosmic radiation, extreme cold at night ... Mars is not very hospitable! It's for these ...
Satellites are key to monitoring ocean carbon
Credit: ESA, S Corvaja Satellites now play a key role in monitoring carbon levels in the oceans, but we are ...
UV satellite will open new view on exploding stars and black holes
DESY to build 100-megapixel camera for Israeli space telescopeCredit: DESY, Sven Stein A new space telescope will open up an ...
Study underscores changes in brain structure, function in long-duration space missions
Credit: Sarah Pack A new study demonstrates for the first time that changes in cognitive performance correlate with changes in ...
SwRI-led Lucy mission completes critical design review
NASA mission to the Trojan asteroids enters construction phaseCredit: NASA/Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Oct. 21, 2019 -- The ...
Assembler robots make large structures from little pieces
Systems of tiny robots may someday build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlementsCredit: Image courtesy of Benjamin Jenett Today's ...
NRL launches space weather instrument on NASA satellite
Credit: NASA WASHINGTON -- A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) instrument aboard NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) satellite will deliver ...
