The European Space Agency’s BepiColombo spacecraft will launch towards Mercury carrying a unique payload designed and built at Southwest Research Institute: an instrument called Strofio, which will study Mercury’s tenuous […]
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Did key building blocks for life come from deep space?
IMAGE: CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO. view more CREDIT: ESA/ROSETTA/NAVCAM All living beings need cells and energy to replicate. Without these fundamental building blocks, living organisms on Earth would not be able to reproduce and would simply […]
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ESA choosing CubeSat companions for Hera asteroid mission
As the world marvels at the hopping mini-rovers deployed on asteroid Ryugu by Japan’s Hayabusa2, ESA is due to decide on the CubeSats planned for delivery to a binary asteroid […]
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Touching the Sun to Protect the Earth
Justin Kasper, professor of climate and space sciences and engineering at the University of Michigan, is a mission principal investigator on the Parker Solar Probe, which is scheduled for launch […]
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Exoplanet Detectives Create Catalog of Light-Fingerprints
Earthbound detectives rely on fingerprints to solve their cases; now astronomers can do the same, using “light-fingerprints” instead of skin grooves to uncover the mysteries of exoplanets. Cornell University researchers […]
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Molecular Oxygen in Comet 67P’s Atmosphere Was Not Created On Its Surface
Scientists have found that molecular oxygen around comet 67P is not produced on its surface, as some suggested, but may be from its body. The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft […]
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SwRI scientists introduce cosmochemical model for Pluto formation
Southwest Research Institute scientists integrated NASA’s New Horizons discoveries with data from ESA’s Rosetta mission to develop a new theory about how Pluto may have formed at the edge of […]
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Dinosaur age meets the space age at NASA Goddard
A slab of sandstone discovered at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center contains at least 70 mammal and dinosaur tracks from more than 100 million years ago, according to a new […]
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UA Scientists Part of Team Chosen as Finalists for NASA Mission
NASA has chosen a planetary mission involving a team from the University of Arizona as one of two finalists to be the next robotic solar system explorer. The proposed mission, […]
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NASA selects comet and Titan missions as New Frontiers finalists
NASA has selected missions to return samples from a comet and to explore Titan with a drone as finalists for the next New Frontiers medium-class planetary science mission.
