Press Releases
| 06/18/2025 | SwRI-led paper summarizes notable progress in understanding the evolution of the terrestrial planets
Impact history should play a crucial role in the search for habitable exoplanets like Earth |
| 06/16/2025 | SwRI’s Angel Wileman named one of Women in Hydrogen 50 for 2025
Engineer honored for contributions to technology and innovation in hydrogen industry |
| 06/10/2025 | SwRI-led PUNCH mission images huge solar eruption
NASA spacecraft make progress in final commissioning, preliminary science operations |
| 06/09/2025 | New SwRI model explains exoplanetary systems with compact orbits
New model accounts for the remarkably consistent total mass of planets relative to host star’s mass |
| 06/06/2025 | SwRI receives up to $250 million to sustain aging U.S. military aircraft structure
Air Force widens scope to include new fleets of older aircraft |
| 06/03/2025 | SwRI-led research finds particles energized by magnetic reconnection in the nascent solar wind
Research offers insights into processes that heat the solar atmosphere and accelerate the solar wind |
| 05/28/2025 | SwRI scientists contribute to uncovering ongoing surface modification on Jupiter’s moon Europa
Latest data indicate that material from Europa’s subsurface ocean is interacting with charged particles at its surface |
| 05/22/2025 | SwRI’s Robin Canup receives 2025 AAS DDA Dirk Brouwer Career Award
Honor recognizes her contributions to understanding the formation of planets and their satellites |
| 05/21/2025 | SwRI fabricates bed-netting prototypes to target malaria-causing parasites
Researchers share findings from in vivo studies in the latest issue of the journal Nature |
| 05/21/2025 | SwRI scientist discovers how solar events affect the velocity of helium pickup ions
New methods track particle evolution across the heliosphere |
| 05/20/2025 | SwRI breaks pressure and temperature record for sCO2 materials testing
Researchers achieve unprecedented conditions of 1,150 degrees Celsius at 300 bar in sCO2 testing environment |
| 05/20/2025 | New flammable gas research facility under construction at Southwest Research Institute
90,000-square-foot facility will test machinery with flammable gases for efficiency, safety and reliability |
| 05/15/2025 | SwRI collects first ultraviolet data from NASA’s Europa Clipper mission
Europa-UVS completes commissioning despite Earthside challenges |
| 05/13/2025 | SwRI demonstrates SWORD™ robotics programming software at Automate 2025
SWORD integrates CAD with open-source ROS tools to streamline automation |
| 04/28/2025 | New Horizons observations lead to first Lyman-alpha map from the galaxy
SwRI-led NASA spacecraft’s scans offer surprising view of galactic surroundings |