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NASA CNEOS

• SpaceDev Places JPL On Contract To Support NEAP Mission Planning
  1998-12-15
  
• News
  2026-10-22
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• NASA Study Finds Near-Earth Asteroid Is Actually Comet
  2026-07-16
  New research led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has revealed the identity of a puzzling near-Earth object by precisely tracking its motion through space and using powerful observatories that image faint celestial objects.
• 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.

Space.com

• The Taurid meteor shower isn't much to look at. That's why I love it
  2026-10-30
  The Taurids produce only a handful of meteors an hour. That sounds disappointing, but I've learned that expecting almost nothing can make this one of the most enjoyable meteor showers of the year.
• On this day in space! Oct. 29, 1991: NASA's Galileo spacecraft flies by asteroid Gaspra and snaps amazing photos while flying at 18,000 mph
  2026-10-29
  On Oct. 29, 1991, the Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Gaspra on its way to Jupiter. Here's why it mattered.
• On this day in space! Oct. 27, 1961: NASA launches Saturn I rocket on 1st test flight from Florida to set stage for the mighty Saturn V moon rocket
  2026-10-27
  On Oct. 27, 1961, NASA launched the first test flight of its new Saturn I space launch vehicle. Here's why it mattered.
• Mars rover tracks from a historic drive | Space photo of the day for Oct. 27, 2026
  2026-10-27
  Rover tracks can be seen on the Martian surface, left behind by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.

Sky&Telescope

• Rubin Observatory Detects Record-Breaking Asteroids
  2026-10-28
  The Rubin Observatory has detected thousands of new asteroids, including several that spin a lot faster than expected for typical rubble piles. The post Rubin Observatory Detects Record-Breaking Asteroids appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
• Japan Launches the Martian Moons Exploration Mission
  2026-10-20
  A two-stage, H3-24L rocket lit up the predawn skies over Tanegashima Space Center on the southern tip of Japan early on Tuesday, October 20th (3:41 p.m. EDT on October 19th), … The post Japan Launches the Martian Moons Exploration Mission appeared first on Sky & Telescope.

• Rise Early on October 22nd for the Orionid Meteor Shower
  2026-10-14
  The Moon bugs out just in time to enjoy the peak of the Orionids, which trace their origin to Halley's Comet. The post Rise Early on October 22nd for the Orionid Meteor Shower appeared first on Sky & Telescope.

Astronomy Now

• Falcon 9 lunar impact: More than a new crater
  2026-08-05
  Today’s impact of a spent Falcon 9 rocket stage on the Moon may sound dramatic, but it is neither the first human-made object to strike our natural satellite nor the largest.

Universe Today

• This Ancient Meteorite Hints at Mars' Warm, Wet Past
  2026-10-30
  Ancient Martian meteorites are like time-capsules from the planet's past. They're delivered to us by impacts that launch them into space, where some of them find their way to Earth. One recently discovered meteorite found in the Sahara desert adds weight to the idea that Mars was once warm and ...
• How You Squeeze Planetary Minerals Changes Everything
  2026-10-30
  Studying the interiors of planets is essential for understanding planetary formation, evolution, and their ability to potentially host life as we know it. To accomplish this, researchers use a combination of Earth as an analog, computer models, meteorites, and data collected from other planetary bodies for studying their interior compositions. ...
• No Comets Required? How the Growing Earth May Have Created Its Own Water
  2026-10-29
  Earth may not have needed comets and asteroids to deliver its water after it formed and cooled. Instead, water creation could have been part of the planet's formation process. New research explains how, and even shows that water creation could be a part of every rocky planet's formation.
• Ancient Comets Carried Organic Compounds, But They Didn't Survive Crashing Into Earth
  2026-10-28
  Perhaps the biggest mystery we face is life on Earth started. One hypothesis says that comets, which are known to carry important chemicals in abiogenesis, delivered these compounds to Earth, leading to the appearance of life. But new research concludes that that is highly unlikely.

EarthSky

• Could the Taurid meteors bring a risk of airbursts in 2026?
  2026-10-30
  A researcher says the Taurid meteor shower could bring an increased risk of an airburst in 2026. But these Halloween fireballs are based on 2 big IFs. The post Could the Taurid meteors bring a risk of airbursts in 2026? first appeared on EarthSky.

The Planetary Society

• Mars rover samples what could be one of the oldest rocks on the Martian surface
  2026-10-28
  The Perseverance rover's "Singita" sample may be more than 3.9 billion years old.
• Sudden changes and slow burns
  2026-10-23
  A mission to a Martian moon launches, what the upcoming U.S. elections will mean for NASA, and new possible landing sites for Artemis.
• Amoebas and anniversaries
  2026-09-25
  A new crater on the Moon, super-hot amoebas, and Hubble marks an orbital milestone as well as one of your own.
• Announcing our new STEP Grant winners: A Solar System shadow-tracker, a new telescope tool, and an asteroid database
  2026-09-21
  Three groups of scientists will receive crowdfunded support to further the scientific exploration of space.
• More than one way to make an impact
  2026-07-17
  Finding craters, speaking out against anti-science policies, preventing asteroid impacts, making art — these are all great ways to make a difference.
• Say hello to our little friends
  2026-07-10
  Hayabusa2 and Tianwen-2 get up close and personal with two asteroids.
• Hayabusa2’s flyby of asteroid Torifune
  2026-07-07
  On Sunday, July 5, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s Hayabusa2 probe performed a close flyby of the asteroid Torifune.
• An ocean of stars
  2026-07-03
  The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has kicked off an epic mission to map the Universe, including potentially dangerous asteroids.
• China’s Tianwen-2 mission has (probably) arrived at a quasi-moon of Earth
  2026-06-25
  The probe aims to bring back a sample from the asteroid Kamo'oalewa.

Space Daily

• Astronauts on the Moon could shelter from radiation, micrometeoroids and extreme temperatures inside a lava tube, and NASA is sending a suite called GIMLI to scan beneath the Marius Hills Pit to see whether the pit opens into one
  2026-10-20
  Underground caverns could offer lunar explorers their first true shelter, if a buried tunnel system actually exists beneath the volcanic landscape where NASA is about to look. The post Astronauts on the Moon could shelter from radiation, micrometeoroids and extreme temperatures inside a lava tube, and NASA is sending a suite ...
• A buried crater under the town of Ames, Oklahoma, that produces oil and gas was dated to the wrong era by about 100 million years, and its new age of about 370 million years puts it close to a mass extinction that wiped out much of the sea’s life
  2026-10-18
  Zircon dating moves the buried Ames impact in Oklahoma to about 370 million years ago, close in time to the Late Devonian mass extinction, UT Austin researchers report. The post A buried crater under the town of Ames, Oklahoma, that produces oil and gas was dated to the wrong era by ...

Phys.org

• Rare 4.1-billion-year-old Martian meteorite reveals clues to planet's ancient past
  2026-10-30
  Scientists at the University of New Mexico have played a key role in identifying a rare, 4.1-billion-year-old Martian meteorite that provides new evidence that the red planet may have once had a wetter, Earth-like environment.
• Comets probably didn't seed life on Earth after all, new study suggests
  2026-10-28
  The theory that comets delivered the molecular building blocks for life on Earth is a long-standing one, since comets are known to carry many of these molecules. However, a new study challenges this idea.
• First comprehensive Mars soil classification offers framework for exploration and future farming
  2026-10-16
  A Ph.D. student at the University of Sydney has produced the first comprehensive classification system and map of Martian soils, creating a new framework that could help scientists compare landscapes across the Red Planet and identify promising locations for future exploration, habitation and food production.
• Sugar found in meteorites may have helped secure its own survival on early Earth
  2026-09-30
  Is there life elsewhere, or is Earth unique in the universe? This is one of humanity's great unanswered questions. One way to approach this mystery is to investigate how life began here on Earth. Our research explores the conditions in which a mixture of molecules somehow transformed from chemistry into ...

• NASA's new UV space telescope will launch in 2031
  2026-10-30
  Most of us could spend our entire lives looking at the night sky and see very few changes. The moon becomes more or less illuminated, the planets drift placidly through the sky, satellites and the ISS intrude for a few moments at a time, and the bright, momentary streak of ...
• Webb links interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS to worlds beyond Neptune through similar ice signatures
  2026-10-27
  A Southwest Research Institute–led study used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine ice grains streaming from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, just the third object from beyond our solar system ever identified. The observations point to tiny aggregates of water ice and dust, about a micron or smaller.

• Rare 4.1-billion-year-old Martian meteorite reveals clues to planet's ancient past
  2026-10-30
  Scientists at the University of New Mexico have played a key role in identifying a rare, 4.1-billion-year-old Martian meteorite that provides new evidence that the red planet may have once had a wetter, Earth-like environment.
• Asteroids venturing near white dwarfs don't break directly into dust, study reveals
  2026-10-30
  When asteroids travel too close to white dwarfs, the dense remnants of stars that have exhausted their nuclear fuel, powerful gravitational forces can tear them apart. However, new research from Planetary Science Institute (PSI) suggests that these asteroids don't immediately break into dust. Instead, most of the mass initially remains ...
• Comets probably didn't seed life on Earth after all, new study suggests
  2026-10-28
  The theory that comets delivered the molecular building blocks for life on Earth is a long-standing one, since comets are known to carry many of these molecules. However, a new study challenges this idea.
• First light: Hera resolves two asteroids instead of one
  2026-10-27
  The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft for planetary defense has resolved its two target asteroids separately for the first time, revealing the binary nature of the Didymos system, currently some 197 million km (122 million miles) away from Earth.
• Perseverance offers clues to protect crews from ultrafine Mars dust
  2026-10-27
  Over 1,645 Martian days, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover measured the fine and ultrafine Martian dust particles found clinging to samples of spacesuit materials that are carried aboard the rover, including particles small enough to penetrate the lungs and enter the bloodstream. The findings are published in the Proceedings of the ...
• Webb links interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS to worlds beyond Neptune through similar ice signatures
  2026-10-27
  A Southwest Research Institute–led study used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine ice grains streaming from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, just the third object from beyond our solar system ever identified. The observations point to tiny aggregates of water ice and dust, about a micron or smaller.
• Pedal to the metal: NASA's Psyche heads toward asteroid belt
  2026-10-23
  With a successful Mars gravity assist in its rearview mirror, NASA's Psyche spacecraft has fired up its thrusters and is accelerating toward the metal-rich asteroid of the same name. During the first leg of its journey, following an October 2023 launch, the mission used its electric propulsion system intermittently to ...
• 'Terror of kings': Why the 1066 appearance of Halley's Comet terrified the medieval world
  2026-10-21
  A sequence on the Bayeux Tapestry shows King Harold alongside a crowd gazing at the sky, beneath the embroidered caption Isti mirant stella ("those people marvel at the star"). Above Harold sits Halley's Comet, with ghostlike invasion boats in the border below—a Norman framing of Harold as a doomed usurper ...

• First light: Hera resolves two asteroids instead of one
  2026-10-27
  The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft for planetary defense has resolved its two target asteroids separately for the first time, revealing the binary nature of the Didymos system, currently some 197 million km (122 million miles) away from Earth.
• Perseverance offers clues to protect crews from ultrafine Mars dust
  2026-10-27
  Over 1,645 Martian days, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover measured the fine and ultrafine Martian dust particles found clinging to samples of spacesuit materials that are carried aboard the rover, including particles small enough to penetrate the lungs and enter the bloodstream. The findings are published in the Proceedings of the ...
• The Orionid meteor shower is coming. Here's how and when to watch
  2026-10-20
  The Orionids—one of two major meteor showers caused by remnants from Halley's Comet—will peak this week, though a large moon will dim visibility until after it sets late at night.
• Lucy mission marks 5 years of discoveries
  2026-10-20
  On Oct. 16, 2021, NASA's Lucy spacecraft began its journey to the never-before-explored Jupiter Trojan asteroids with an early morning launch. Now less than a year away from the first-ever close-up of a Trojan, the Southwest Research Institute–led mission has already made several findings during its first five years.
• Japan to launch historic round-trip mission to Mars moon
  2026-10-18
  Japanese scientists are readying a mission to Mars' moons to retrieve samples that could help unlock the origins of the solar system and life on Earth, in what aims to be the first round trip to the Martian region.
• Japan's MMX mission aims to swipe soil samples from Mars's moon Phobos
  2026-10-18
  A Japanese space mission is about to launch towards Mars. But it will not land on the planet itself. Instead, the Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) mission will focus on Phobos, the bigger of Mars's two small moons.

Science Daily

• Meteors don't just burn up. What really happens is far more violent
  2026-10-29
  Scientists have uncovered seven surprising stages that space rocks go through as they hurtle toward Earth, revealing that melting and violent fragmentation, rather than simple evaporation, determine their fate. The discovery could help explain why meteorites scatter across the ground and how dangerous asteroids explode in Earth's atmosphere.
• NASA’s asteroid Bennu samples reveal a 4.5-billion-year-old secret
  2026-10-24
  Tiny samples from asteroid Bennu are rewriting scientists' understanding of how our Solar System formed. New evidence suggests that Bennu was born where material from the inner and outer Solar System mixed, with Jupiter playing a surprising role in shaping its formation.
• Astronauts’ hearts just passed a surprising test for Mars
  2026-10-21
  A new study tracking 13 astronauts suggests that the human heart may be surprisingly well equipped for a journey to Mars, especially with regular exercise during spaceflight. Researchers found that astronauts' hearts adapted to months of weightlessness and handled simulated Martian gravity without major problems, offering new hope for future ...
• NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover just shattered the all-time off-world driving record
  2026-10-21
  NASA’s Perseverance rover has shattered a historic space exploration record, traveling farther across another world than any vehicle before it. Its advanced self-driving system helped it surpass Opportunity’s 28.06-mile record in just five and a half years, a feat that previously took nearly 15. Now, Perseverance is exploring some of ...
• NASA solves a strange mystery hidden inside asteroid Bennu’s boulders
  2026-10-20
  NASA scientists have finally uncovered why asteroid Bennu loses heat so quickly despite being covered in massive boulders. Samples returned to Earth reveal that its rocks are filled with hidden cracks, solving a mystery that has puzzled researchers for years.

BBC Science

• BBC Inside Science
  2026-10-22
  A Japanese spacecraft could become the first ever to bring Martian samples back to Earth.
• Mission blasts off for Mars to grab a piece of its moon
  2026-10-19
  A spacecraft is set to launch on an ambitious mission to bring 10g of Martian moon dust back to Earth.

wired.com

• NASA’s Oldest Martian Spacecraft Have Been Running for Decades. Here’s How
  2026-10-27
  Two orbiters have long outlasted their expected lifespans and completely reshaped our understanding of the Red Planet, all while operating 140 million miles from Earth.

LSM.LV

• Ķīmiķis: Tas ir fascinējoši skaisti – mēs patiešām esam radušies no zvaigžņu elementiem
  2026-10-25
  Astronoms Karls Seigans reiz teicis, ka "mēs visi esam radušies no zvaigžņu putekļiem", un tas nav nekas pārspīlēts, jo dzīvības pamatā patiesi ir elementi, kuri radušies un "izsējušies" mežonīgajā zvaigžņu dzimšanas un bojāejas rezultātā, Latvijas Radio raidījumā "Zināmais nezināmajā" skaidroja ķīmiķis, astronomijas entuziasts Jānis Jaunbergs un astrofiziķis, Meteorītu muzeja vadītājs ...

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