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NASA CNEOS

• SpaceDev Places JPL On Contract To Support NEAP Mission Planning
  1998-12-15
  
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  2026-07-30
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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

• On this day in space! Aug. 17, 1877: Asaph Hall discovers the Martian moon Phobos
  2026-08-17
  On this day in space, Aug. 17, 1877: American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Mars's moon Phobos.
• On this day in space! Aug. 14, 1992: Meteorite shower hits Uganda
  2026-08-14
  On Aug. 14, 1992, a space rock entered the atmosphere over Mbale, Uganda and exploded into hundreds of pieces!

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

• JWST Peeks at Callisto’s Ancient Scars
  2026-08-18
  Of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, Callisto is the one that gets the least attention. Io is constantly being resurfaced by volcanoes. Europa has a giant liquid water ocean. And Ganymede has its own magnetic field that interacts with its parent planet in weird ways. Callisto, by comparison, seems sedate, with ...
• What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 2: A Machine to Find Another Earth
  2026-08-18
  The Habitable Worlds Observatory is being built for one purpose: to directly image another living Earth. Inside the coronagraph that must block ten billion times the planet's light, the picometer-stable mirror we don't yet know how to build, and the messy problem of reading an atmosphere.
• Mars Curiosity Rover Discovers Massive Field of Polygons
  2026-08-18
  The surface of Mars is home to some of the most breathtaking and awe-inspiring landscapes in the solar system. This is primarily due to the Red Planet lacking several re-surfacing processes that Earth possesses, including plate tectonics, volcanism, and flowing water. While Mars does have dust storms, this has done ...
• NASA's SkyFall Mars Helicopters Will Feature a Revolutionary Antenna Design
  2026-08-18
  Engineers developed a unique fabric-based design for a ground-penetrating radar that will be a key instrument on NASA’s SkyFall Mars helicopters. The hardware will enable the SkyFall mission’s trio of planetary rotorcraft to use ground-penetrating radar to study the Martian subsurface.
• Nuking An Asteroid on Short Notice Could Save Us
  2026-08-17
  Readers of a certain age will remember a golden area of asteroid films, capstoned by two with very different endings. Deep Impact engrained the devastating consequences of letting a large piece of rock hit our planet, whereas Armageddon, though arguably the more kitschy of the two films, was an uplifting ...

The Planetary Society

• 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.
• Big impacts
  2026-05-29
  New asteroid discoveries, big changes at NASA, and breathtaking views of Saturn.
• Big Moon mission, little space rocks
  2026-04-03
  The Artemis II launch, and meteorites on Earth and the Moon.

Space Daily

• It takes BepiColombo more than eight years and nine planetary flybys to reach orbit around Mercury. The paradox is that getting closer to the Sun makes you faster, not slower — so the spacecraft has spent much of its journey shedding energy just to avoid screaming past the planet it was sent to study.
  2026-08-18
  BepiColombo’s long route to Mercury is an exercise in losing heliocentric orbital energy while matching a planet travelling around the Sun at roughly 47 kilometres per second. The post It takes BepiColombo more than eight years and nine planetary flybys to reach orbit around Mercury. The paradox is that getting closer ...
• Every asteroid with a ‘neck’ that astronomers had ever found had exactly two lobes joined at one narrow waist — until new images of the asteroid Nysa this month revealed a third lobe nobody expected, and nobody yet knows whether it was born whole or built from three separate collisions
  2026-08-18
  The asteroid that defied astronomers' expectations has three lobes instead of two, raising the question of whether it formed in a single cataclysm or assembled piecemeal over eons. The post Every asteroid with a ‘neck’ that astronomers had ever found had exactly two lobes joined at one narrow waist — until ...
• Japan is sending a spacecraft to land on Phobos, where gravity is about 1,700 times weaker than Earth’s. MMX will collect more than 10 grams of material and return it to Australia in 2031 — the first sample ever deliberately brought back to Earth from the Martian system.
  2026-08-18
  MMX will use a rover, two sampling systems and a brief Phobos landing to return more than 10 grams of material to Australia in 2031. The post Japan is sending a spacecraft to land on Phobos, where gravity is about 1,700 times weaker than Earth’s. MMX will collect more than 10 ...
• On 13 April 2029, a roughly 375-metre asteroid named Apophis will pass closer to Earth than some of our own satellites — just 32,000 kilometres above the surface — and new calculations suggest up to 90% of humanity could potentially see it cross the sky with the naked eye.
  2026-08-18
  New visibility maps put as much as 90% of humanity inside Apophis's cumulative naked-eye viewing region, but geography is only the first condition. The post On 13 April 2029, a roughly 375-metre asteroid named Apophis will pass closer to Earth than some of our own satellites — just 32,000 kilometres above ...
• A radar aboard ESA’s Mars Express detected an extraordinarily bright reflection beneath 1.5 kilometres of Martian polar ice, spread across a patch roughly 20 kilometres wide. Years later, a second radar aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter finally reached the same layer — and saw only a faint echo, deepening a debate over whether there is liquid water, unusual rock, or something else beneath Mars’s south pole.
  2026-08-18
  MARSIS found an intensely bright boundary beneath Mars's south polar ice. SHARAD has now reached the same layer and returned a much fainter signal. The post A radar aboard ESA’s Mars Express detected an extraordinarily bright reflection beneath 1.5 kilometres of Martian polar ice, spread across a patch roughly 20 kilometres ...
• NASA’s Viking 2 lander photographed frost forming on Mars in the 1970s. Nearly half a century later, a University of Arkansas researcher fed its old weather measurements into a model and found something Viking’s scientists never knew: for roughly 30 Martian days each year, the frost around the lander may have created tiny pools of liquid perchlorate brine.
  2026-08-18
  A modern model built around Viking 2's frost photographs and weather record finds a narrow 30-sol season when microscopic calcium-perchlorate brines may briefly form in Martian soil. The post NASA’s Viking 2 lander photographed frost forming on Mars in the 1970s. Nearly half a century later, a University of Arkansas researcher ...

Phys.org

• NASA's SkyFall Mars helicopters will feature a revolutionary antenna design
  2026-08-18
  From 2021 to 2024, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter became the first vehicle of its kind to explore the Martian atmosphere and surface. With that proof of concept complete, NASA is preparing to send a trio of helicopters to search for the most precious resource for future astronaut missions: water. Known as ...

• What a dry meteorite tells us about water on Mars
  2026-08-13
  Detecting water where none remains today: Neutron and X-ray tomography make it possible. In an international study conducted with the participation of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, researchers have brought to light macroscopic hydrogen-rich regions inside a Martian meteorite. The findings provide evidence for early water-rock interactions on Mars.
• Mars could have carried liquid water more recently than we thought
  2026-08-11
  For decades, astronomers have assumed that the Martian surface froze solid around 3 billion years ago and has stayed that way ever since. If this were really the case, any liquid water would have long since either been locked away underground or lost to space.
• Laying odds on the potential for Martian water near future landing zones
  2026-08-01
  We know Mars has water ice in its polar regions, but astronauts (and their solar-powered equipment!) would much rather experience life closer to Mars' equator. As NASA looks toward landing humans on the red planet, the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) is mapping where water should and shouldn't be found and ...
• Alien world chemistry found inside meteorite that struck New Jersey home
  2026-07-15
  On July 16, 2024, a daytime meteor shook New York City with a sonic boom as it passed just south of the Statue of Liberty. Now, an international team of researchers reports in the journal Science Advances that a short time later, a meteorite weighing more than 2 pounds crashed ...
• Six massive landslides discovered on icy Pluto
  2026-07-13
  Scientists have detected evidence of landslides on Pluto for the first time. A paper published in the journal Icarus reports that images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft during a flyby revealed six large landslides in three impact craters.
• Much of Earth's 'space dust' may come from unidentified near-Earth asteroids
  2026-07-07
  Like a shelf in an old house, the Earth collects a lot of dust from its surroundings. This "space dust" is mostly made up of micrometeorites that survive atmospheric entry and provides researchers with a cheap and easy way to obtain samples to study our cosmic neighbors. However, it can ...

• Nuking an asteroid on short notice could save us
  2026-08-18
  Readers of a certain age will remember a golden era of asteroid films, capped by two with very different endings. "Deep Impact" drove home the devastating consequences of letting a large piece of rock hit our planet, whereas "Armageddon," though arguably the kitschier of the two films, was an uplifting ...

• NASA's SkyFall Mars helicopters will feature a revolutionary antenna design
  2026-08-18
  From 2021 to 2024, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter became the first vehicle of its kind to explore the Martian atmosphere and surface. With that proof of concept complete, NASA is preparing to send a trio of helicopters to search for the most precious resource for future astronaut missions: water. Known as ...
• Ruby-forming mineral found by Mars rover hints at violent impacts
  2026-08-18
  So far, most of the minerals found on Mars tell a story of lava poured out by ancient volcanoes, followed by long stretches in which water trickled through and slowly reshaped the rock. However, some rocks scattered across the Martian surface seem to hint at a different geological history—carrying the ...
• Nuking an asteroid on short notice could save us
  2026-08-18
  Readers of a certain age will remember a golden era of asteroid films, capped by two with very different endings. "Deep Impact" drove home the devastating consequences of letting a large piece of rock hit our planet, whereas "Armageddon," though arguably the kitschier of the two films, was an uplifting ...
• What a dry meteorite tells us about water on Mars
  2026-08-13
  Detecting water where none remains today: Neutron and X-ray tomography make it possible. In an international study conducted with the participation of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, researchers have brought to light macroscopic hydrogen-rich regions inside a Martian meteorite. The findings provide evidence for early water-rock interactions on Mars.
• Mars could have carried liquid water more recently than we thought
  2026-08-11
  For decades, astronomers have assumed that the Martian surface froze solid around 3 billion years ago and has stayed that way ever since. If this were really the case, any liquid water would have long since either been locked away underground or lost to space.
• Rare Mars meteorite preserves 1.27-billion-year-old clues to planet's deep interior
  2026-08-09
  Boston College scientists have determined that a newly discovered meteorite from Mars is 1.27 billion years old and derived from a previously unsampled, pristine source on the Red Planet. The study is published in the journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
• The asteroid that may be three worlds
  2026-08-09
  What shape is an asteroid? For (44) Nysa, the honest answer until now has been that nobody knew. It is one of the brightest and largest E-type asteroids in the main belt, a class with a surface rich in enstatite, and its oddness has made it a favorite target for ...
• NASA's Perseverance captures Phobos and Earth
  2026-08-06
  This composite of seven images from the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover shows Earth, visible as a small bright dot moving from upper left to lower right, passing behind the Martian moon Phobos on July 2, 2026, the 1,907th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

• NASA's SkyFall Mars helicopters will feature a revolutionary antenna design
  2026-08-18
  From 2021 to 2024, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter became the first vehicle of its kind to explore the Martian atmosphere and surface. With that proof of concept complete, NASA is preparing to send a trio of helicopters to search for the most precious resource for future astronaut missions: water. Known as ...
• How to spot the Perseid meteor shower, a summer light show that promises to dazzle
  2026-08-09
  The Perseid summer light show is back—and viewing conditions are especially promising for the Northern Hemisphere.
• The asteroid that may be three worlds
  2026-08-09
  What shape is an asteroid? For (44) Nysa, the honest answer until now has been that nobody knew. It is one of the brightest and largest E-type asteroids in the main belt, a class with a surface rich in enstatite, and its oddness has made it a favorite target for ...

Science Daily

• Meteorite that smashed through a New Jersey roof reveals clues to life’s origins
  2026-08-08
  A rare meteorite that crashed through a New Jersey roof contains evidence of ancient salty fluids, organic compounds, and amino acids from a primitive asteroid. Its pristine chemistry could offer new clues about how space rocks helped supply early Earth with some of the ingredients needed for life.
• The key to colonizing Mars may be hidden inside asteroids
  2026-08-07
  Metal-rich asteroids could one day become hardware stores for Mars, supplying the materials needed to build and repair a growing colony. A new analysis shows that carefully selected asteroids may be reachable with current spacecraft technology. Some could even provide the ingredients for making rocket fuel in space, dramatically reducing ...
• A solar eclipse and the Perseid meteor shower arrive on the same day
  2026-08-05
  August brings four major celestial events, including a solar eclipse and the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. Dark New Moon skies could make the Perseids especially impressive, while Venus will blaze in the west after sunset. A deep partial lunar eclipse closes the month, darkening most of the Moon.
• NASA’s Curiosity rover finds a mysterious honeycomb landscape on Mars
  2026-08-01
  NASA’s Curiosity rover has entered a Martian valley covered by an astonishing “sea” of tiny polygon-shaped fractures. The honeycomb patterns, each only a few inches wide, stretch across the landscape and even wrap around a nearby 20-foot-tall butte.

wired.com

• How and When to View the Perseid Meteor Shower (August 2026)
  2026-08-11
  The Perseids will peak between August 12 and 13. Here’s what time—and where—you can get the best view, and why 2026 will be an exceptional year.

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