Southwest Research Institute scientists joined a team that reanalyzed and modeled data from a planned lunar impact more than a decade ago. The findings suggest that volatiles present in a […]
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On Saturday, December 25, 2021 at 9:20 am local time, an Ariane 5 rocket lifted off from the Guiana Space Center, Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana (South America), injecting […]
NASA’s 2021 Included Mars Landing, First Flight, Artemis, More
In 2021, NASA completed its busiest year of development yet in low-Earth orbit, made history on Mars, continued to make progress on its Artemis plans for the Moon, tested new […]
ESO Images Some Of The Biggest Asteroids In Our Solar System
The detailed images of these 42 objects are a leap forward in exploring asteroids, made possible thanks to ground-based telescopes, and contribute to answering the ultimate question of life, the […]
SwRI’s Burch to receive AGU’s highest honor
On behalf of the Earth and space science community, the American Geophysical Union has selected Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. James L. Burch to receive the 2021 William Bowie Medal, the […]
AAS/DPS: Division for Planetary Sciences Announces 2021 Prize Winners
The Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) has named its prize winners for 2021.The DPS awards the 2021 Gerard P. Kuiper Prize for outstanding contributions […]
NASA to Explore Divergent Fate of Earth’s Mysterious Twin with Goddard’s DAVINCI+
Although Earth and Venus are similar in size and location, they are very different worlds today. While Earth has oceans of water and abundant life, Venus is dry and fiercely […]
Claudia Alexander Prize Will Honor Mid-Career Planetary Scientists
The Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) is proud to introduce the Claudia J. Alexander Prize to recognize mid-career scientists who have made and continue […]
The Last Moments Of A Star Devoured By A Black Hole
A rare blast of light, emitted by a star as it is sucked in by a supermassive black hole, has been spotted by scientists using telescopes from around the world. […]
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Has An Aurora
Data from NASA instruments aboard the ESA (European Space Agency) Rosetta mission have helped reveal that comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has its own far-ultraviolet aurora. It is the first time such electromagnetic […]