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An international team of scientists recently measured the spectrum of the atmosphere of a rare hot Neptune exoplanet, whose discovery by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was announced just last month.   The discovery was made with...

A team of University of New Mexico computer scientists led by Research Assistant Professor Matthew Fricke is competing with diverse computer research groups to develop an algorithm that...

For more than a decade, astronomers have searched for planets orbiting AU Microscopii, a nearby star still surrounded by a disk of debris left over from its formation. Now scientists using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and...

What’s it like to sleep in space? Have you ever tried a New Mexico chile? Is microgravity as fun as it looks? Those are just a few of the questions students had the opportunity to ask NASA Astronaut Christina Koch aboard the International Space...

NASA scientists opened an untouched rock and soil sample from the Moon returned to Earth on Apollo 17, marking the first time in more than 40 years a pristine sample of rock and regolith from the Apollo era has been opened. It sets the stage for...

The University of New Mexico and The Children’s Hour will host a live chat with astronauts from the International Space Station in December. This is a rare and out of this world opportunity for students to engage with NASA astronauts, space experts and...

New research project aims to study interactions of boron and ribose in groundwater on Mars Does life exist beyond Earth? Human beings have pondered this question since we first gazed up at the stars. Today, planetary scientists turn to our solar system...

The University of New Mexico’s NASA Swarmathon is one of three international finalists for the 2018 Airbus GEDC Diversity Award. The 2018 award will be given to the project that demonstrates the best use of technology to enhance diversity in engineering...

More than 600 students from 40 colleges and 30 high schools will demonstrate their programming skills in a robotics competition culminating at the Kennedy Space Center, April 18-20.  The competition, which will be live-streamed online, is part of the...

University of New Mexico Computer Science Professor Melanie Moses is leading a national competition to teach students to program small robots to swarm. Working together, UNM and NASA built 55 Swarmie robots. Schools across the country received 36 of the...