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NASA’s Snowman Discovery Just Got a Simple Explanation
20 Feb 2026 05:35 GMT
… NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
… 1, 2019. Credit: NASA
NASA’s New Horizons and the … contact binaries surged after NASA’s New Horizons … clouds behave.
As future NASA missions venture deeper into …
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NASA issues partnership call to continue CYGNSS satellite data collection
11 Feb 2026 08:27 GMT
… National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is seeking industry and … mission operations provided by the Southwest Research Institute. NASA said the spacecraft and its … request limited nonreimbursable support from NASA, the agency said evaluation …
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NASA Says Europa Is Covered by a Thick Icy Shell
31 Jan 2026 18:37 GMT
… a formidable icy shell.
Now, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab scientists —drawing … ,” said Juno principal investigator and Southwest Research Institute scientist Scott Bolton in the … look with the help of NASA’s Europa Clipper and the …
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NASA Detects Most Powerful Eruption Ever on Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io
29 Jan 2026 06:12 GMT
… world knows no bounds.
NASA’s Juno mission detected a … Bolton, a researcher at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio and principal … the JIRAM infrared imager aboard NASA’s Juno on December … 27, 2024.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI …
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NASA Has a New Estimate for Europa’s Ice Shell, and Whoa Is It Ever Thick
29 Jan 2026 00:35 GMT
… its thickness. In 2022, NASA’s Juno spacecraft zoomed … and co-investigator from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory … s principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute. He and Levin are … They provide critical context for NASA’s Europa Clipper and …
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KU’s Physics and Astronomy department hosting ‘Pluto Day’ event, celebrating science of space and the dwarf planet’s KU connection
20 Feb 2026 06:21 GMT
photo by: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute Image …
An image of Pluto taken by NASA…
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NASA’s Juno Measures Thickness of Europa’s Ice Shell
27 Jan 2026 23:55 GMT
… the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. “They provide critical context for NASA’s … the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA’s New … .fox@nasa.gov / molly.l.wasser@nasa.gov
Deb Schmid
Southwest Research Institute, San …
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The Kuiper Belt is packed with weird peanut-shaped objects. Astronomers think they know why
20 Feb 2026 02:39 GMT
… shape. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute… yet of the phenomenon when NASA’s New Horizons mission flew … Nesvorný, an astronomer at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., who was …
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Simulations shed light on how snowman-shaped body in Kuiper belt may have formed
19 Feb 2026 19:09 GMT
… scientist at the Southwest Research Institute and principal investigator of Nasa’s New Horizons …
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Dr Francesco Di Sabatino, Southwest Research Institute
12 Nov 2025 02:17 GMT
… for Power and Propulsion Group, Southwest Research Institute, tells me about a research … , as well as spacecraft for NASA. Combustion is just a part … sustainable aviation fuel before joining Southwest Research Institute, and I wanted to continue …