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