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NASA CNEOS

• SpaceDev Places JPL On Contract To Support NEAP Mission Planning
  1998-12-15
  
• News
  2026-05-18
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• NASA’s DART Mission Changed Orbit of Asteroid Didymos Around Sun
  2026-03-06
  The DART impact not only altered Dimorphos’ orbit around Didymos but also produced a measurable shift in the entire binary system’s orbit around the Sun.
• New NASA Asteroid Observations Eliminate Chance of 2032 Lunar Impact
  2026-03-05
  Observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observations on Feb. 18 and 26, 2026, refine near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit and rule out a chance of lunar impact on Dec. 22, 2032.
• 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.

Space.com

• We talk to 'For All Mankind' star Mireille Enos about crafting Happy Valley's tough Martian cop
  2026-05-21
  "She doesn’t want a promotion or any attention. She's just trying to stay under the radar."
• Nikon Action 16x50 binoculars review
  2026-05-21
  We tested Nikon's new Action 16x50 binoculars for up-close stargazing, and saw lunar craters and Orion's belt in sharp contrast
• Strange stacked stones spotted on Mars | Space photo of the day for May 21, 2026
  2026-05-21
  NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has stumbled across an unusual sight: a stack of rocks on the Martian surface.
• NASA's Psyche probe takes awesome images of Mars on way to (possibly) precious asteroid
  2026-05-20
  NASA's asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft flew by Mars for a gravity assist on the way to its final target. And it took some close-up pictures on the way.
• Lasers in moon craters could create a lunar GPS system
  2026-05-20
  Scientists are exploring how lasers stabilized in the moon's coldest, darkest craters could enable a GPS-like network to help future Artemis astronauts and spacecraft navigate the lunar surface with far greater precision.
• Scientists just solved a tricky asteroid-hopping spacecraft riddle
  2026-05-19
  Plotting the optimal trajectory to visit multiple asteroids is a fiendishly difficult take on the Traveling Salesperson problem, but a new mathematical approach has succeeded in solving it.

Universe Today

• Both Hemispheres of 3I/ATLAS Observed Simultaneously by JUICE and Europa Clipper
  2026-05-22
  The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) instruments aboard ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft and NASA’s Europa Clipper made unique observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in late 2025. SwRI leads the UVS instruments on both spacecraft, simultaneously imaging both hemispheres of the comet and detecting the comet’s ultraviolet ...
• NASA's Psyche Mission Says Goodbye to Mars and Heads for its Metal-Rich Target
  2026-05-20
  Spacecraft often use planets for gravity-assist or "slingshot" maneuvers. NASA's Psyche mission used Mars for that purpose during a May 15th flyby. The flyby accelerated the spacecraft and aimed it at its eventual destination, the asteroid 16 Psyche. The flyby was also an opportunity to take some pictures of Mars, ...
• Breaking the Martian Sound Barrier
  2026-05-20
  Ingenuity, the Mars helicopter, which performed the first controlled, powered flight on another planet, was an excellent demonstration of human ingenuity. But it was just that - a demonstrator. The intention with Ingenuity was simply to prove that we could, in fact, fly on another planet. But now we’ve proved ...
• Extreme Lunar Conditions Need an Extreme Test Rig
  2026-05-20
  When people eventually head to the Moon for long-term exploration and habitation, they'll need equipment and habitats made of well-tested materials. That's where NASA's Lunar Environment Test Rig (LESTR) comes in handy. It simulates extreme cold lunar night conditions right here in a NASA Glenn lab, testing equipment in temperatures ...

EarthSky

• Sun news: A sun-diving comet goes … poof!
  2026-05-22
  Sun news for May 22, 2026: Sun flare activity increased over the past day. And we watched a comet dive into the sun! The post Sun news: A sun-diving comet goes … poof! first appeared on EarthSky.

The Planetary Society

• Big Moon mission, little space rocks
  2026-04-03
  The Artemis II launch, and meteorites on Earth and the Moon.
• Messengers of ice and time
  2026-03-16
  Comets are ancient relics from the Solar System's formation that may have delivered water and the building blocks of life to early Earth.
• Why do some planets have rings and others don't?
  2026-03-11
  The giant planets of our Solar System all have rings, as do some dwarf planets and even asteroids. So why don’t Mercury, Venus, Earth, or Mars?
• Better together
  2026-01-30
  Martian travel buddies, synchronized Sun science, and a proven leadership team.

Space Daily

• The Soviet Lunokhod 1 rover went silent on the Moon in 1971, then scientists found its lost reflector in 2010 and got a signal bright enough to reopen a forgotten corner of lunar science
  2026-05-22
  The Soviet Lunokhod 1 rover went silent in 1971 and its retroreflector was considered a lost target for nearly four decades. When laser ranging teams finally located it in 2010, the French-built reflector was returning brighter signals than any of the Apollo arrays. The post The Soviet Lunokhod 1 rover went ...
• Dante imagined a catastrophic planetary impact in striking geological detail 500 years before science understood how asteroids work — and it took a researcher reading the Inferno to notice
  2026-05-22
  The structure of Hell, as Dante Alighieri laid it out in the early 14th century, is a cone-shaped cavity driven into the earth, narrowing through nine concentric rings toward a frozen pit at the centre of the planet. It was created, in Dante’s telling, when Satan fell from heaven and ...

Phys.org

• Asteroid impact site reveals possible traces of early life
  2026-05-20
  A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing life. A team of South Korean scientists has uncovered new evidence that could help explain how Earth's atmosphere became rich in oxygen, one of the most transformative events in the planet's history.
• NASA's Curiosity rover uncovers metal‑rich hotspot tied to ancient Martian lake
  2026-04-22
  A team of scientists using the ChemCam instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has discovered the highest amounts of iron, manganese, and zinc ever found together in Gale Crater on Mars. Minerals with these metals were found in remarkably well-preserved ripples in rocks, indicating the high likelihood that a shallow ...
• New device aims to protect the Earth from Martian microbes
  2026-04-20
  The possibility of life on other planets is one of the biggest mysteries in science. But what would happen if we actually found it? Our scientists are preparing for this possibility by helping to develop a new system that can analyze samples for signs of extraterrestrial life while keeping the ...
• 'Bathtub ring' hints at ancient Martian ocean
  2026-04-15
  Caltech researchers have identified geological features on Mars that could point to the existence of a long-dried ocean that once covered a third of the Red Planet's surface. The research was conducted by former Caltech postdoctoral scholar Abdallah Zaki and Caltech professor of geology Michael Lamb. The study is described ...
• Contaminants, including ink, detected in meteorites suggest sample preparation needs improving
  2026-04-14
  The IBeA group of the EHU-University of the Basque Country is proposing new measures to safeguard the purity of extraterrestrial samples. Several contaminants, including traces of ink, originating in the preparation of subsamples, have been identified in Martian meteorites by the EHU's research group. The finding highlights the importance of ...
• Meet Orpheus—A hopper mission built to hunt for life in Martian volcanoes
  2026-04-12
  We've spent decades scratching the surface of Mars trying to uncover life there. But we've been searching a barren wasteland bombarded by radiation and bathed in toxic perchlorates. The entire time, it's likely that it's been too hostile to harbor extant life. So if we want a better shot at ...
• Chang'e mission samples reveal how exogenous organic matter evolves on the moon
  2026-04-11
  Elements essential to life, such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur, were "delivered" to Earth and the moon during the early stages of the solar system via asteroids and comets impacting their surfaces. These exogenous materials may have provided the chemical building blocks necessary for the origin and early ...

• After 10 years of upgrades, this legendary telescope has returned to chase black holes, asteroids and cosmic chemistry
  2026-05-20
  The Haystack 37m Telescope has been a landmark in radio astronomy and radar studies of the solar system since its first light in 1964. Over the following four decades, it supported NASA's Apollo landings on the moon, made planetary radar maps of the surface of Venus, contributed to experimental tests ...

• Asteroid impact site reveals possible traces of early life
  2026-05-20
  A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing life. A team of South Korean scientists has uncovered new evidence that could help explain how Earth's atmosphere became rich in oxygen, one of the most transformative events in the planet's history.
• Image: NASA's Psyche mission captures Mars' Huygens Crater
  2026-05-20
  Captured by the multispectral imager instrument on NASA's Psyche mission, this is an enhanced-color view of the large double-ring crater Huygens (upper right; about 290 miles, or 470 kilometers, in diameter) and the surrounding heavily cratered southern highlands near 15 degrees south latitude. The various colors in this dramatic scene ...
• Image: NASA's Psyche mission spies Mars' wind-blown craters during close approach
  2026-05-20
  This view of the Martian surface, captured by NASA's Psyche spacecraft on May 15, 2026, shows streaks that have formed due to wind blowing over impact craters in the Syrtis Major region. The image scale is nearly 1,200 feet (360 meters) per pixel. The wind streaks extend to about 30 ...
• Asteroid 2022 OB5 spins too fast for current prospectors, highlighting the divide between 'accessible' and 'exploitable'
  2026-05-19
  Asteroid mining seems simple in theory. A spacecraft flies up to a giant rock in space, scoops out some material, and either processes it on site or returns it back to a huge central processing facility. But in practice, it is certainly not that simple, and a new paper from ...
• New research examines how misinformation threatens planetary defense and public trust
  2026-05-19
  As misinformation spreads faster than ever across digital platforms, new research highlights growing risks to public understanding of planetary defense, an area of science that deals with the threat from asteroid and comet impacts, with potentially global consequences.
• Is Earth's constant companion a stray asteroid or a chunk of the moon?
  2026-05-18
  Earth has a group of cosmic stalkers. Known as "co-orbitals," these small bits of rock have a 1:1 mean motion resonance with Earth. Basically, they take the exact same amount of time to orbit the sun as we do. Astronomers have long believed these objects wandered in from the main ...
• Dark lunar craters could host ultrastable lasers for moon navigation
  2026-05-18
  They rank among the darkest and coldest places in the solar system: Hundreds of lunar craters, many of them at the moon's south pole, never receive direct sunlight and lie in permanent shadow. That's exactly why physicist Jun Ye and his colleagues suggest that these craters are the perfect place ...
• Images: NASA's Perseverance captures panorama at 'Arbot'
  2026-05-18
  NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this panorama of an area nicknamed "Arbot" on April 5, 2026, the 1,882nd Martian day (sol) of the mission, during the rover's deepest push west beyond Jezero Crater.
• NASA's Psyche spacecraft buzzing Mars on its way to a rare metal asteroid
  2026-05-14
  A NASA spacecraft chasing a rare metal asteroid swings past Mars this week for a gravity boost, snapping thousands of pictures as practice for the main encounter in 2029.

• Image: NASA's Psyche mission captures Mars' Huygens Crater
  2026-05-20
  Captured by the multispectral imager instrument on NASA's Psyche mission, this is an enhanced-color view of the large double-ring crater Huygens (upper right; about 290 miles, or 470 kilometers, in diameter) and the surrounding heavily cratered southern highlands near 15 degrees south latitude. The various colors in this dramatic scene ...
• Image: NASA's Psyche mission spies Mars' wind-blown craters during close approach
  2026-05-20
  This view of the Martian surface, captured by NASA's Psyche spacecraft on May 15, 2026, shows streaks that have formed due to wind blowing over impact craters in the Syrtis Major region. The image scale is nearly 1,200 feet (360 meters) per pixel. The wind streaks extend to about 30 ...
• Asteroid 2022 OB5 spins too fast for current prospectors, highlighting the divide between 'accessible' and 'exploitable'
  2026-05-19
  Asteroid mining seems simple in theory. A spacecraft flies up to a giant rock in space, scoops out some material, and either processes it on site or returns it back to a huge central processing facility. But in practice, it is certainly not that simple, and a new paper from ...

SciTechDaily

• NASA’s Hubble Accidentally Witnesses a Comet Shattering in Space
  2026-05-21
  In a stunning stroke of luck, Hubble witnessed a comet splitting apart almost in real time. The rare observation is giving scientists an unprecedented look inside one of the solar system’s ancient icy leftovers. In an extraordinary stroke of luck, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed a comet breaking apart in ...

Science Daily

• Ancient asteroid craters may have sparked Earth’s oxygen-producing life
  2026-05-22
  A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discovered fossil-like stromatolites — layered structures built by ancient microbes — inside the Hapcheon impact crater, suggesting that asteroid strikes may have created warm, mineral-rich lakes ...
• Mars may have once had an ocean and this chaotic valley is a big clue
  2026-05-15
  A colossal valley near Mars’s equator is revealing dramatic clues about the Red Planet’s watery and volcanic past. Stretching roughly 1,300 kilometers, Shalbatana Vallis was carved billions of years ago when enormous floods of groundwater burst onto the surface, gouging deep winding channels across the landscape. Today, the region is ...
• Scientists discover a mysterious asteroid breaking apart near the Sun
  2026-05-14
  A newly discovered meteor stream may be the smoking gun of an asteroid slowly disintegrating under the Sun’s intense heat. Scientists say these fiery streaks across the night sky could reveal hidden near-Earth asteroids that telescopes struggle to detect.
• Halley’s comet may be named after the wrong person
  2026-05-13
  A medieval monk may have beaten Edmond Halley to one of astronomy’s greatest discoveries by nearly 700 years. Researchers say Eilmer of Malmesbury recognized that the blazing comet seen in 1066 was the same one he had witnessed in 989. At the time, comets were viewed as terrifying omens tied ...
• NASA’s Psyche probe is about to slingshot around Mars at 12,000 mph
  2026-05-11
  NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is about to pull off a dramatic close flyby of Mars, skimming just 2,800 miles above the planet to get a powerful gravitational boost on its journey to the mysterious metal-rich asteroid Psyche. The maneuver will save propellant while giving mission scientists a rare chance to test ...
• Scientists say Dante’s Inferno described an asteroid impact 500 years before modern science
  2026-05-11
  Dante’s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially imagined a catastrophic asteroid impact centuries before modern science understood meteors. In this interpretation, Satan crashes into Earth like a giant cosmic object, blasting through the Southern Hemisphere and reshaping the ...
• Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS contains strange water never seen in our solar system
  2026-05-08
  A mysterious comet from beyond our solar system is giving astronomers a rare glimpse into alien worlds — and it may have formed in a place far colder and stranger than anything around our Sun. The interstellar visitor, called 3I/ATLAS, contains an astonishingly high amount of “heavy water,” far exceeding ...

wired.com

• Can OpenAI’s ‘Master of Disaster’ Fix AI’s Reputation Crisis?
  2026-05-22
  Global affairs chief Chris Lehane wants to tone down the debate over AI’s societal impacts—and get states to pass laws that won’t derail OpenAI’s meteoric rise.

• Asteroid 2026 JH2 Is About to Fly Right Past Earth—Relatively Speaking
  2026-05-16
  On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon.

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