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• Dalangtan 004 (H3) 2025-12-06
• Gadamis 010 (Angrite) 2025-12-06
• Ganq 027 (L3) 2025-12-06
• Hammadah al Hamra 348 (Ureilite) 2025-12-06
• Northwest Africa 18122 (Eucrite) 2025-12-06
• Northwest Africa 18163 (Winonaite) 2025-12-06
• Northwest Africa 18164 (CK3) 2025-12-06
• Northwest Africa 18180 (H3) 2025-12-06
• Northwest Africa 18181 (L3) 2025-12-06
• Northwest Africa 18183 (Eucrite-melt breccia) 2025-12-06
• Northwest Africa 18184 (CV3) 2025-12-06
• Northwest Africa 18188 (LL3) 2025-12-06
• Northwest Africa 18205 (H3) 2025-12-06
• Northwest Africa 18206 (Eucrite-melt breccia) 2025-12-06
• Northwest Africa 18222 (Ureilite) 2025-12-06
• Northwest Africa 18223 (Eucrite) 2025-12-06
• Northwest Africa 18237 (Ureilite) 2025-12-06
• Oued El Hamim 003 (Eucrite) 2025-12-06
• Sabkhat Arryd 002 (Eucrite-pmict) 2025-12-06
• Yagan 003 (LL3) 2025-12-06

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 spacecraft tracks comet SWAN in incredible 40-day timelapse — and even glimpses interstellar invader 3I/ATLAS (video)
  2025-12-05
  NASA imaged Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) every four minutes for nearly 40 days, marking the longest any comet has been tracked with such frequency.
• Mars orbiter sees 'butterfly' crater spread its wings on the Red Planet
  2025-12-05
  A new view of Mars showcases a dramatic impact crater on the Red Planet with its debris wings unfurling across the surface like a butterfly in flight.
• Seeing a bull's-eye in the desert | Space photo of the day for Dec. 5, 2025
  2025-12-05
  Is this really a crater in the Saharan Desert?
• Geminid shooting stars: One of 2025's most exciting meteor showers begins tonight
  2025-12-04
  The Geminid meteor shower is active from Dec. 4 and hits its peak on the night of Dec. 13-14.
• China's 1st reusable rocket explodes in dramatic fireball during landing after reaching orbit on debut flight
  2025-12-03
  The first test flight of Landspace's Zhuque-3 rocket ended in a fiery explosion after successfully reaching orbit.
• NASA discovers 'space gum' and sugars 'crucial to life' in asteroid Bennu samples brought to Earth (video)
  2025-12-03
  Asteroid Bennu samples contain life-friendly sugars, a strange "space-gum," and ancient stardust

Astronomy Now

• 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

• Did Asteroids Invent Gum Billions of Years Ago?
  2025-12-06
  What is “gum”? Most people have probably never considered this question, and might answer something like a chewy material you can put in your mouth. But, to a scientist they might answer something like “nitrogen-rich polymeric sheets”, because precisely defining the chemistry of a material is important to them. Or ...
• SPHERE Shows Us How Our Solar System Isn't Much Different Than Others
  2025-12-05
  Observations with the SPHERE instrument on the European Southern Observatory's VLT revealed the presence of debris rings similar to structures in our Solar System. SPHERE found rings similar to the Kuiper Belt and the Main Asteroid Belt. Though individual asteroids and comets can't be imaged, these debris rings infer that ...
• Scientists and Senators are Excited About the Sugars Found in the OSIRIS-REx Samples
  2025-12-05
  It’s been over two years since the samples from Bennu gathered by OSIRIS-REx were returned to Earth. But there’s still plenty of novel science coming out of that 121.6 g of material. Three new papers were released recently that describe different aspects of that sample. One in particular, from Yoshihiro ...
• Long Ago, Mars Had Massive Watersheds — Now Finally Mapped
  2025-12-05
  What can mapped drainage systems on Mars teach scientists about the Red Planet’s watery past? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of scientists from the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) conducted a ...
• A Blueprint For Visiting An Interstellar Comet
  2025-12-04
  arXiv:2512.00492v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We describe how the ESA Comet Interceptor mission, which is due to launch in 2028/29 to a yet-to-be-discovered target, can provide a conceptual basis for a future mission to visit an Interstellar Object. Comet Interceptor will wait in space until a suitable long period comet ...
• How to Catch a Comet That Hasn't Been Discovered Yet
  2025-12-03
  There’s been a lot of speculation recently about interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS - much of which is probably caused by low quality data given that we have to observe it from either Earth, or in some case Mars. In either case it’s much further away that what would be the ideal. ...

The Planetary Society

• 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.
• NASA: Perseverance found possible biosignatures in Martian rock
  2025-09-11
  NASA’s Perseverance rover has identified a potential sign of past life on Mars — not a definitive detection, but perhaps the most compelling hint yet.
• All space rocks great and small
  2025-08-15
  From large comets to tiny meteorites and all the asteroids in between, it’s worth finding all sizes of space rocks.
• Supporting asteroid defense: The 2025 Shoemaker NEO Grant winners
  2025-08-14
  Meet the latest winners of The Planetary Society's Shoemaker NEO Grant program.

Space Daily

• Mars Rover Uncovers Evidence of Ancient Wet Climate in Jezero Crater
  2025-12-05
  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 NASA's Perseverance rover identified light-colored rocks in Jezero crater that consist of white, aluminum-rich kaolinite clay. These rocks formed after prolonged exposure to water leached other minerals from parent rocks and sediments. The process required millions of years of rainfall in a humid environment. ...
• Scientists trace ancient mega watersheds on Mars
  2025-12-05
  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 Billions of years ago, rainfall on Mars fed rivers that cut valleys, overtopped crater rims and carved canyons, with some flows likely reaching a northern ocean basin on the planet. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have now organized these fluvial features ...

Phys.org

• Long ago, Mars had massive watersheds—now finally mapped
  2025-12-06
  What can mapped drainage systems on Mars teach scientists about the red planet's watery past? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of scientists from the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) conducted a ...

• Sugars, 'gum,' stardust found in NASA's asteroid Bennu samples
  2025-12-02
  The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As part of the ongoing study of pristine samples delivered to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft, three ...
• Evidence of rain-driven climate on Mars found in bleached rocks scattered in Jezero crater
  2025-12-01
  Rocks that stood out as light-colored dots on the reddish-orange surface of Mars now are the latest evidence that areas of the small planet may have once supported wet oases with humid climates and heavy rainfall comparable to tropical climates on Earth.
• Scientists map Mars' large river drainage systems for first time
  2025-12-01
  Billions of years ago, it rained on Mars. The water collected in valleys and rivers, filled and spilled over the rims of craters, and was funneled into canyons, perhaps even making its way to a large Martian ocean.
• What seven decades of hunting for aliens tells us
  2025-11-29
  Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after decades of space probes, meteorite analysis, radio telescopes, and UFO investigations, what have we actually found? A new piece of analysis by a team led by Seyed Sina Seyedpour Layalestani from the Islamic Azad ...
• Asteroid loaded with amino acids offers new clues about the origin of life on Earth
  2025-11-29
  One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer space. This idea suggests that prebiotic molecules—the building blocks of life—were transported here by asteroids or other celestial bodies. While these molecules have been found in ...
• Meteorite samples are time capsules from the early solar system
  2025-11-27
  When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth. Contained within are hints about the very beginning of the solar system and how planets, including our own, formed.
• Meteorite crater hosts methane-making microbes—a clue to life on Mars?
  2025-11-26
  Scientists have discovered living microbes producing methane in the fractured rocks deep inside Sweden's Siljan impact crater, offering insights into Earth's earliest life and the search for life beyond our planet.

• How to catch a comet that hasn't been discovered yet
  2025-12-03
  There's been a lot of speculation recently about interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS—much of which is probably caused by low-quality data given that we have to observe it from either Earth, or in some cases, Mars. In either case, it's much further away than what would be the ideal. But that might ...
• Debris disk gallery shows tell-tale signs of asteroids and comets in distant solar systems
  2025-12-03
  Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks" in exoplanetary systems.

• Long ago, Mars had massive watersheds—now finally mapped
  2025-12-06
  What can mapped drainage systems on Mars teach scientists about the red planet's watery past? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of scientists from the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) conducted a ...
• A blueprint for visiting an interstellar comet
  2025-12-04
  Sometime in 2029, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch its Comet Interceptor Mission. The Interceptor will wait for a long-period comet to arrive in the inner solar system then set off on a trajectory to rendezvous with it. These objects are ancient and primordial, carrying material largely unaltered ...
• How to catch a comet that hasn't been discovered yet
  2025-12-03
  There's been a lot of speculation recently about interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS—much of which is probably caused by low-quality data given that we have to observe it from either Earth, or in some cases, Mars. In either case, it's much further away than what would be the ideal. But that might ...
• NASA tests drones in Death Valley, preps for Martian sands and skies
  2025-12-03
  When NASA engineers want to test a concept for exploring the Red Planet, they have to find ways to create Mars-like conditions here on Earth. Then they test, tinker, and repeat.
• Interstellar object covered in 'icy volcanoes' could rewrite our understanding of how comets formed
  2025-12-03
  Analysis of the second confirmed interstellar comet to visit our solar system suggests that the alien body could be covered in erupting icy, volcano-like structures called cryovolcanoes. Researchers also discovered that the comet has a metal-rich interior, which could challenge our understanding of how comets formed in our own planetary ...
• Debris disk gallery shows tell-tale signs of asteroids and comets in distant solar systems
  2025-12-03
  Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks" in exoplanetary systems.
• Sugars, 'gum,' stardust found in NASA's asteroid Bennu samples
  2025-12-02
  The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As part of the ongoing study of pristine samples delivered to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft, three ...
• Evidence of rain-driven climate on Mars found in bleached rocks scattered in Jezero crater
  2025-12-01
  Rocks that stood out as light-colored dots on the reddish-orange surface of Mars now are the latest evidence that areas of the small planet may have once supported wet oases with humid climates and heavy rainfall comparable to tropical climates on Earth.
• Scientists map Mars' large river drainage systems for first time
  2025-12-01
  Billions of years ago, it rained on Mars. The water collected in valleys and rivers, filled and spilled over the rims of craters, and was funneled into canyons, perhaps even making its way to a large Martian ocean.

• A blueprint for visiting an interstellar comet
  2025-12-04
  Sometime in 2029, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch its Comet Interceptor Mission. The Interceptor will wait for a long-period comet to arrive in the inner solar system then set off on a trajectory to rendezvous with it. These objects are ancient and primordial, carrying material largely unaltered ...
• Interstellar object covered in 'icy volcanoes' could rewrite our understanding of how comets formed
  2025-12-03
  Analysis of the second confirmed interstellar comet to visit our solar system suggests that the alien body could be covered in erupting icy, volcano-like structures called cryovolcanoes. Researchers also discovered that the comet has a metal-rich interior, which could challenge our understanding of how comets formed in our own planetary ...
• NASA confirms support for delayed European Mars rover: ESA
  2025-11-26
  NASA has confirmed that it will contribute to Europe's Martian rover Rosalind Franklin, which is scheduled to launch in 2028 after repeated delays, the European Space Agency said on Wednesday.

SciTechDaily

• What Time Is It on Mars? Physicists Finally Have an Exact Answer
  2025-12-06
  Summary: Time doesn’t flow uniformly across the solar system, and new research reveals just how differently it unfolds on Mars compared with Earth. By tracing subtle gravitational and orbital influences, scientists have uncovered variations in the pace of Martian time that could become crucial for future navigation and communication far ...
• “We Were Stunned”: Scientists Uncover Massive Hydrothermal Field in the Mediterranean
  2025-12-05
  Researchers have uncovered an unexpectedly large and tectonically controlled hydrothermal vent field around Milos Island. A new study in Scientific Reports describes the discovery of a surprisingly large hydrothermal vent field along the underwater shelf of Milos Island, Greece. Researchers identified the vents during the METEOR expedition M192, using a ...
• How Earth’s Toughest Microbes May Help Us Colonize Mars
  2025-12-05
  A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since the moment humans first walked on the Moon, the idea of expanding civilization beyond Earth has guided major space agencies as they plan for long-term life beyond our planet. Of all nearby worlds, Mars ...

Science Daily

• SPHERE’s stunning space images reveal where new planets are forming
  2025-12-06
  SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation. These bright arcs and faint clouds reveal where tiny planet-building bodies collide, break apart, and reshape their systems. Some disks contain sharp edges or unusual patterns that hint at massive ...
• The solar mission that survived disaster and found 5,000 comets
  2025-12-03
  For thirty years, SOHO has watched the Sun from a stable perch in space, revealing the inner workings of our star and surviving crises that nearly ended the mission. Its long-term observations uncovered a single global plasma conveyor belt inside the Sun, detailed how solar brightness subtly shifts over the ...
• New Mars images reveal hidden traces of a recent ice age
  2025-11-26
  Mars’s Coloe Fossae reveals a landscape shaped by ancient ice ages, with deep valleys, cratered terrain, and frozen debris flows preserved from a time when the planet’s climate dramatically shifted.
• Scientists may have found the planet that made the Moon
  2025-11-23
  About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across space rocks. By examining subtle isotopic fingerprints in Earth and Moon samples, scientists have reconstructed Theia’s possible composition and birthplace.
• Japanese spacecraft faces a massive challenge from a house-size asteroid
  2025-11-21
  New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought. The discovery adds complexity to Hayabusa2’s 2031 mission but also heightens scientific interest. The asteroid’s composition remains uncertain, making the encounter even more compelling. Insights from this work could ...

BBC Science

• 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.
• Life on Mars? 'Leopard-spot' rocks could be biggest clue yet
  2025-09-10
  Unusual mudstones found on the Red Planet are potentially associated with ancient Martian microbes.

wired.com

• The Best Meteor Shower of the Year Is Coming—Here’s How to Watch
  2025-12-04
  The highlight of the year, the Geminids are the most active and colorful meteor shower, offering the chance to see hundreds of shooting stars every hour when they peak in mid-December.

• The Best Meteor Shower of the Year Is Coming—Here’s How to Watch
  2025-12-04
  The highlight of the year, the Geminids are the most active and colorful meteor shower, offering the chance to see hundreds of shooting stars every hour when they peak in mid-December.

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