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News feed for newly approved meteorites:

• Akhiam (Eucrite) 2026-01-24
• Ganq 030 (L3.15) 2026-01-24
• Northeast Africa 122 (R3-5) 2026-01-24
• Northwest Africa 17282 (CV3) 2026-01-24
• Northwest Africa 17589 (CK6) 2026-01-24
• Northwest Africa 17725 (Iron, IIAB-an) 2026-01-24
• Northwest Africa 17931 (Eucrite-cm) 2026-01-24
• Northwest Africa 17934 (Eucrite) 2026-01-24
• Northwest Africa 18030 (OC3) 2026-01-24
• Northwest Africa 18031 (Brachinite) 2026-01-24
• Northwest Africa 18032 (L7) 2026-01-24
• Northwest Africa 18033 (Pallasite) 2026-01-24
• Northwest Africa 18035 (Mesosiderite) 2026-01-24
• Northwest Africa 18104 (CM2) 2026-01-24
• Northwest Africa 18140 (Angrite) 2026-01-24
• Northwest Africa 18272 (Diogenite) 2026-01-24
• Northwest Africa 18282 (LL3) 2026-01-24
• Northwest Africa 18283 (LL3) 2026-01-24
• Northwest Africa 18284 (LL3-5) 2026-01-24
• Northwest Africa 18288 (Eucrite-melt breccia) 2026-01-24

NASA CNEOS

• NASA Discovers Interstellar Comet Moving Through Solar System
  2025-07-02
  On July 1, the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations of a comet that originated from interstellar space.
• Latest Calculations Conclude Asteroid 2024 YR4 Now Poses No Significant Threat to Earth in 2032 and Beyond
  2025-02-24
  NASA has significantly lowered the risk of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 as an impact threat to Earth for the foreseeable future.
• Asteroid 2024 YR4 reaches level 3 on the Torino Scale
  2025-01-31
  NASA analysis of a near-Earth asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, indicates it has a small chance of impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.
• NASA Study: Asteroid’s Orbit, Shape Changed After DART Impact
  2024-03-19
  After NASA’s historic Double Asteroid Redirection Test, a JPL-led study has shown that the shape of asteroid Dimorphos has changed and its orbit has shrunk.
• NASA System Predicts Impact of a Very Small Asteroid Over Germany
  2024-01-24
  The Scout impact assessment system calculated where and when the asteroid 2024 BX1 would impact Earth’s atmosphere, providing a useful demonstration of planetary defense capability.
• CNEOS Predicts Another Small Asteroid Impact, This One over Northwestern France
  2023-02-14
  Another tiny asteroid on a collision course with Earth was detected over the weekend, and JPL’s CNEOS Scout system accurately predicted where and when the impact would happen, well before it actually occurred.
• NASA System Predicts Small Asteroid to Pass Close by Earth This Week
  2023-01-25
  On Thursday, Jan. 26, a small near-Earth asteroid will have a very close encounter with our planet. Designated 2023 BU, the asteroid will zoom over the southern tip of South America at about 4:27 p.m. PST (7:27 p.m. EST) only 2,200 miles (3,600 kilometers) above the planet’s surface and well ...
• NASA Program Predicted Impact of Small Asteroid Over Ontario, Canada
  2022-11-22
  In the early hours of Saturday, Nov. 19, the skies over southern Ontario, Canada, lit up as a tiny asteroid harmlessly streaked across the sky high in Earth’s atmosphere, broke up, and likely scattered small meteorites over the southern coastline of Lake Ontario. The fireball wasn’t a surprise. Roughly 1 ...
• US Space Force Releases Decades of Bolide Data to NASA for Planetary Defense Studies
  2022-04-07
  Hosted by JPL’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, the data can be used by the science community to better understand how asteroids break up when entering the atmosphere.
• Updated Calculations Refine the Impact Probability for (29075) 1950 DA
  2022-03-29
  (29075) 1950 DA is a kilometer-sized asteroid that will make a close approach to Earth in 2880 and, because of the corresponding impact probability and size, has ranked at the top of the Sentry risk list since 2014.

Space.com

• NASA exoplanet probe tracks interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS to gauge its spin
  2026-01-29
  The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.
• NASA moves critical fueling test for Artemis 2 moon rocket up to Jan. 31
  2026-01-27
  The SLS wet dress rehearsal is the rocket's last major hurdle before launch.
• Help defend Earth from asteroids with your Unistellar telescope
  2026-01-27
  Unistellar co-founder tells Space.com about how citizen scientists are using smart telescopes to engage in planetary defense.
• Watch NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket on the launch pad with this 24-hour livestream
  2026-01-27
  The Artemis 2 moon mission's SLS rocket is on the pad at Kennedy Space Center for testing ahead of a possible Feb. 6 launch, and you can watch it 24/7 via this livestream.
• Venus may get a huge meteor shower this July, thanks to a long-ago asteroid breakup
  2026-01-27
  This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially sparking an impressive meteor shower.
• James Webb Space Telescope sees comet-seeding crystals flowing far from newborn star (photo)
  2026-01-26
  NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young star flinging heat-formed crystals outward on a cosmic conveyor belt, offering a new clue to how comets evolve.
• Moon landings could contaminate evidence about life's beginnings on Earth. Here's how
  2026-01-26
  Exhaust from lunar landers drifts across the moon and contaminates ultra-cold polar craters that are rich in ancient ice and organic clues, a new study reports.
• 3 stunning lunar craters to explore during the half-lit first quarter moon tonight
  2026-01-25
  The craters bear the names of astronomers who revolutionized our understanding of the night sky.
• NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket is on the launch pad. What's next?
  2026-01-23
  Artemis 2 is at the launch pad, but several big tests must be performed before it launches as soon as Feb. 6.

Astronomy Now

• Potentially bright ‘sungrazing’ comet discovered
  2026-01-16
  A potentially large member of the Kreutz family comets is speeding its way to a perihelion encounter during the first week of April this year. The object was discovered on 13 January 2026.
• Meteor shower calendar
  2025-11-14
  There are many meteor showers throughout the year. Here are the most prominent.
• How to observe meteor showers
  2025-11-14
  Everything you need to know to get started with observing meteors.
• How to see Comet Lemmon
  2025-10-29
  Don't miss the chance to see Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) as it races towards its closest approach of the Sun on 8 November.

Univere Today

• The Monk Who Recognised Halley's Comet First
  2026-01-28
  The comet bearing Edmond Halley's name may have been misnamed! New research from Leiden University reveals that an 11th Century English monk recognised the famous comet's periodicity centuries before the British astronomer. Eilmer of Malmesbury witnessed the comet's appearances in both 989 and 1066, linking the two observations and understanding ...
• The HWO Must Be Picometer Perfect To Observe Earth 2.0
  2026-01-27
  Lately we’ve been reporting about a series of studies on the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), NASA’s flagship telescope mission for the 2040s. These studies have looked at the type of data they need to collect, and what the types of worlds they would expect to find would look like. Another ...
• Asteroid 2024 YR4 Has a 4% Chance of Hitting the Moon. Here’s Why That’s a Scientific Goldmine.
  2026-01-27
  There’s a bright side to every situation. In 2032, the Moon itself might have a particularly bright side if it is blasted by a 60-meter-wide asteroid. The chances of such an event are still relatively small (only around 4%), but non-negligible. And scientists are starting to prepare both for the ...
• Icy Comets Get A Contribution From Stellar Furnaces
  2026-01-26
  Icy comets contain common crystals that can only be formed in extreme heat. But comets reside in the frigid outer reaches of the Solar System. How did these materials form, and how did they find their way into the Solar System's cold fringes?

The Planetary Society

• Pictures, pixels, and picks
  2025-12-19
  Great pictures of a planet and a comet, and great picks from a year of our virtual book club.
• What is comet 3I/ATLAS?
  2025-10-07
  A roundup of key facts and surprising discoveries about the third known interstellar object.
• Mars rock and roll
  2025-10-03
  A Mars rock may hold answers in the search for life, and spacecraft might roll along its surface. Plus, meet the red planet’s Rolling Stones Rock.
• Don’t stare at the Sun (unless you’re SOHO)
  2025-09-19
  The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory isn’t just a powerful tool for studying the Sun; it’s one of the best comet hunters in existence.

Space Daily

• Bright streaks reveal Mercury still geologically active
  2026-01-29
  Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 29, 2026 A new analysis of Mercury has uncovered hundreds of bright linear streaks on crater slopes that point to ongoing loss of volatile material from the planet's interior, challenging the view of Mercury as a geologically dead and dry world. The work, led by researchers at ...

Phys.org

• New fear unlocked: Runaway black holes
  2026-01-29
  Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our solar system from somewhere far beyond. It was moving at around 68 kilometers per second, just over double Earth's speed around the sun.
• Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs had limited impact on sharks and rays, study shows
  2026-01-29
  A new study using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) has revealed that the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago caused only a modest decline in shark and ray species. The findings, published in the journal Current Biology, challenge previous understandings of how severely this mass extinction ...

• Ancient Martian beach discovered, providing new clues to red planet's habitability
  2026-01-27
  New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface water in a Martian crater that once held a vast lake—considerably expanding the timeline for potential habitability at this ancient site. In an international study led by Imperial College London, researchers uncovered that ...
• A new study of lunar rocks suggests Earth's water might not have come from meteorites
  2026-01-25
  For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a period when planets and bodies in the solar system experienced a much higher rate of impacts.
• Are we the Martians? The intriguing idea that life on Earth began on the red planet
  2025-12-29
  How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that led to biology, or when the first primitive life forms appeared.

• New fear unlocked: Runaway black holes
  2026-01-29
  Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our solar system from somewhere far beyond. It was moving at around 68 kilometers per second, just over double Earth's speed around the sun.
• Halley's Comet wrongly named: 11th-century English monk predates British astronomer
  2026-01-23
  The British astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley was not, after all, the first to understand the cycle of the comet that now bears his name. This is shown by research conducted by, among others, Professor Simon Portegies Zwart. It was the monk Eilmer of Malmesbury who, as early as the ...

• Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of hitting the moon. Here's why that's a scientific goldmine
  2026-01-28
  There's a bright side to every situation. In 2032, the moon itself might have a particularly bright side if it is blasted by a 60-meter-wide asteroid. The chances of such an event are still relatively small (only around 4%) but are non-negligible. And scientists are starting to prepare both for ...
• The HWO must be picometer perfect to observe Earth 2.0
  2026-01-28
  Lately we've been reporting about a series of studies on the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), NASA's flagship telescope mission for the 2040s. These studies have looked at the type of data they need to collect, and what the types of worlds they would expect to find would look like.
• Ancient Martian beach discovered, providing new clues to red planet's habitability
  2026-01-27
  New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface water in a Martian crater that once held a vast lake—considerably expanding the timeline for potential habitability at this ancient site. In an international study led by Imperial College London, researchers uncovered that ...
• A new study of lunar rocks suggests Earth's water might not have come from meteorites
  2026-01-25
  For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a period when planets and bodies in the solar system experienced a much higher rate of impacts.
• Halley's Comet wrongly named: 11th-century English monk predates British astronomer
  2026-01-23
  The British astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley was not, after all, the first to understand the cycle of the comet that now bears his name. This is shown by research conducted by, among others, Professor Simon Portegies Zwart. It was the monk Eilmer of Malmesbury who, as early as the ...
• Accessing water on Mars: Examining the best technologies for future missions
  2026-01-22
  A new study has examined how future human missions to Mars could access one of the planet's most vital resources—water. The "Martian aqua: occurrence of water and appraisal of acquisition technologies" paper, published in the Advances in Space Research journal, presents a comparative analysis of potential water acquisition technologies for ...
• Webb finds young sun-like star forging common crystals and flinging them into its outer disk
  2026-01-21
  Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline silicates, since crystals require intense heat to form and these "dirty snowballs" spend most of their time in the ultracold Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. Now, looking outside our solar system, ...

• From lunar nights to Martian dust storms: Why batteries struggle in space
  2026-01-23
  Space agencies are no longer talking about visiting the moon, they're planning on living on it.
• Accessing water on Mars: Examining the best technologies for future missions
  2026-01-22
  A new study has examined how future human missions to Mars could access one of the planet's most vital resources—water. The "Martian aqua: occurrence of water and appraisal of acquisition technologies" paper, published in the Advances in Space Research journal, presents a comparative analysis of potential water acquisition technologies for ...
• Legs made for a Mars landing 
  2026-01-21
  To land on the right foot on the Red Planet, European engineers have been dropping a skeleton of the four-legged ExoMars descent module at various speeds and heights on simulated Martian surfaces.

Science Daily

• Strange white rocks on Mars hint at millions of years of rain
  2026-01-27
  Bright white rocks spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover are rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient Mars. These aluminum-rich clays, called kaolinite, usually form on Earth only after millions of years of heavy rainfall in warm, humid environments—conditions similar to tropical rainforests. Their presence on today’s cold, dry Mars ...
• James Webb catches an exoplanet losing its atmosphere in real time
  2026-01-20
  Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP-121b for an entire orbit with the James Webb Space Telescope. Instead of a single stream of escaping gas, the planet is wrapped in two colossal helium tails—one trailing behind like ...

BBC Science

• Nasa's mega Moon rocket arrives at launch pad for Artemis II mission
  2026-01-18
  Final preparations now get underway for the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years.
• Asteroid contains building blocks of life, say scientists
  2025-01-29
  Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.
• Nasa's mega Moon rocket arrives at launch pad for Artemis II mission
  2026-01-18
  Final preparations now get underway for the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years.

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