New Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) modeling, conducted in collaboration with scientists at the University of Arizona, shows fundamental differences in how the Moon may have formed from the giant impact that created the Earth-Moon system. The new results used...
Using equipment installed on NASA’s WB-57 aircraft flying above heavy clouds off the coast of Iceland, a Southwest Research Institute-led team successfully observed a total solar eclipse on Wednesday, August 12. The high-altitude jet followed the shadow of the Moon at...
Dr. Olivier Mousis, a program director in the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Solar System Science and Exploration Division, has been elected an Academician, or full member, of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). Full membership to the IAA...
A Southwest Research Institute-led paper documents how NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere mission could greatly improve the ability to forecast the arrival of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). These vast clouds of magnetized plasma can disrupt...
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington now includes a model of a Southwest Research Institute-built Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) microsatellite. The model is a part of a permanent exhibit at the museum showing the...
A Southwest Research Institute-led study has proposed a connection between a specific collision in the main asteroid belt and an inner-solar-system-wide bombardment episode that may have had measurable biological and geological consequences on Earth. The research...
