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NASA Spacecraft Detect a Mysterious Force Shaping the Solar Wind
12 Sep 2025 03:55 GMT
A new study led by Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Michael Starkey has … . The MMS mission, launched by NASA in 2015, placed four spacecraft …
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University of Idaho professor helps discover new moon orbiting Uranus
12 Sep 2025 03:11 GMT
… of a softball, according to NASA. The atmosphere of the … moon was found using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope … which is something that even NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft didn … a press release from the Southwest Research Institute.
While the latest addition …
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University of Idaho researcher identifies new moon orbiting Uranus
12 Sep 2025 00:56 GMT
… other institutions, led by the Southwest Research Institute, discovered a 14th moon orbiting … -exposure images of Uranus from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope …
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Activity detected on dwarf planet Makemake, once thought to be a frozen wasteland
11 Sep 2025 21:25 GMT
… joined an exclusive club. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope … a principal scientist at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI).
“Makemake is one of … Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Image credit: NASA Visualization Technology Applications and Development …
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A dwarf planet far beyond Pluto might have a paper-thin atmosphere
10 Sep 2025 15:34 GMT
… study, led by the Southwest Research Institute, made the discovery using … a joint observatory of NASA and its European and … decade ago.
Credit: NASA / ESA / Southwest Research Institute /A. … Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech …
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Makemake's Secret Finally Revealed
10 Sep 2025 12:21 GMT
… a team led by the Southwest Research Institute team using the James Webb … , Makemake was the second (Credit : NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied …
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Webb Detects Methane Gas on Dwarf Planet Makemake
10 Sep 2025 03:20 GMT
Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James … / SwRI / STScI / NASA / ESA / CSA … Protopapa, an astronomer at the Southwest Research Institute.
“Webb revealed that methane is …
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Ready for the next 'Oumuamua? Launching flyby missions to visiting interstellar comets is 'feasible and affordable,' study says
09 Sep 2025 10:26 GMT
… affordable," scientists with the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI), who led the … the principal investigator of NASA's New Horizons … could be later proposed to NASA." (The SWRI … performance [for] missions that NASA has already flown," …
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Researchers at SwRI Produced a Mission Concept for Exploring Interstellar Objects Like 3I/ATLAS
07 Sep 2025 01:03 GMT
… . The latest comes from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), where a team has … soon after its discovery. Credit: NASA/ESA/UCLA… launch performance like missions that NASA has already flown to encounter …
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UI scientist helps discover new moon orbiting Uranus
… a moon orbiting Uranus using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope … a team led by the Southwest Research Institute spent the spring and summer …