'This work affirms the feasibility of systematically monitoring the most distant atmospheres on gaseous planets.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

An instrument designed to study exoplanets has turned its focus to our own cosmic neighborhood to measure Jupiter's wind speeds. "The exploratory application of this method with a 'top of the range' ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A space instrument created to try and find out whether there’s life beyond Earth will launch this month after being designed and built by a team at the ...

The UVS instrument recorded spatial information produced by hydrogen atoms radiating from the Earth. In the background a number of individual stars are identified along with the Pleiades star cluster.

NASA's Europa Clipper mission has successfully deployed two of its science instruments as it makes its way to the Jupiter system. "Europa Clipper is the largest spacecraft NASA has ever developed for ...

A space instrument created to try and find out whether there’s life beyond Earth will launch this month after being designed and built by a team at the University of Colorado Boulder. The Surface Dust ...

Editor's note: Europa Clipper successfully launched Oct. 14. As early as Oct. 10, a small piece of Colorado will begin its more than six-year journey to Jupiter’s mysterious moon Europa—which, ...

The JUICE mission is at the very beginning of its eight-year journey to Jupiter and its moons, but one of its science instruments is already misbehaving. The European Space Agency’s Jovian probe is ...

SAN ANTONIO — October 15, 2024 —Two Southwest Research Institute instruments were launched aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft on Oct. 14 from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center. The spacecraft is ...

As Southwest Research Institute adds to its space exploration resume with a six-year mission to search for signs of life on one of Jupiter’s moons, an investigator on the project says it’s also a hunt ...