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Submit ArticleJapan's Hayabusa2 Achieves First-Ever Laser Ranging Experiment with an Asteroid
On Sunday July 5th, 2026, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) achieved the first-ever successful laser ranging experiment while making a fly...
Source: Universe Today
Icy Exocomets Around a Distant Star Help Explain Earth's Water
Did icy comets deliver water to the young Earth? That idea won't go away. Now, astronomers at Lund University in Sweden have found evidence of ex...
Source: Universe Today
A New Mission Could Rendezvous With Halley's Comet In 2061
Halley’s comet captures the imagination in a way that few other astronomical objects do. When it last made its approach toward the Sun (admittedly whe...
Source: Universe Today
This NASA-funded 'Slingshot' spacecraft idea could map minerals on planets and moons across our solar system
NASA funded an early-stage concept aiming to show new techniques for mapping minerals on the moon, asteroids or Martian moons.
Source: Space.com
How did the infant sun form? Scientists get surprising new insights from 4.6-billion-year-old space dust
New research suggests that dust from meteorites contains a "fossil record" dating back 4.6 billion years to the formation of the sun, reveal...
Source: Space.com
Scientists watch a comet being born 3 billion miles away
A rare look at a centaur transforming into a comet with coma is providing a missing link in the evolution of small, icy solar system bodies.
Source: Space.com
Astronomers See How a Centaur Can Become a Comet
In 1992, Centaur 450P/LONEOS had a close encounter with Saturn, shifting its orbit closer to the Sun. Now astronomers can observe how a small icy body...
Source: Universe Today
Comet McNaught put on a surprise show this summer: Here's how to spot it before it fades
Comet McNaught brightened dramatically during two outbursts around perihelion as it made a close approach to the sun.
Source: Space.com
A satellite sent up in 1995 to watch the sun has found more comets than anything else in history, and most of the 5,000 in its tally were spotted by volunteer citizen scientists, many with no formal scientific training, clicking through the free pictures
A sun-watching satellite designed nearly 30 years ago has become history's greatest comet hunter, with amateur astronomers crowdsourcing its disc...
Source: Space Daily
On this day in space! Sept. 2, 2016: Rosetta spacecraft finds long-lost Philae lander on Comet 67P after 2-year search
On Sept. 2, 2016, the European Space Agency finally located Philae, its long-lost comet lander on the surface of the Comet 67P. Here's why it mat...
Source: Space.com
NASA Rocket Takes First Multi-Point Look Inside Radio-Disrupting Clouds
High above Earth, thin veils of metallic haze drift through the edge of space. Known as sporadic E layers, these high-altitude “clouds” form from the ...
Source: NASA
7-stage journey reveals how falling space rocks survive air
At least once in our lives, we’ve all seen a bright streak of light briefly blaze across the sky and have quickly referred to it as an asteroid, meteo...
Source: Universe Today
On January 27, 2025, asteroid 2024 YR4 crossed the 1% impact-probability threshold; two days later, the International Asteroid Warning Network sent its first-ever formal asteroid warning to the UN’s space office—activating a planetary-defence protocol cre
Asteroid 2024 YR4 became the first object to trigger IAWN's formal UN notification protocol, testing a warning system whose successful end point ...
Source: Space Daily
On this day in space! Aug. 28, 1993: Galileo spacecraft flies by asteroid Ida on the way to Jupiter only to find a tiny moon!
On Aug. 28, 1993, NASA's Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Ida on its way to Jupiter. Here's why it mattered.
Source: Space.com
China’s Tianwen‑2 travelled roughly one billion kilometres over 400 days before returning the first close-up image of Kamoʻoalewa in July 2026—a tiny, fast-spinning asteroid perhaps only 20 metres wide whose unusual spectrum once made it look like a fragm
Tianwen-2 has reached a fast-spinning asteroid that Webb estimates at only 18 plus or minus 2 metres wide, just as new spectra and models reopen its p...
Source: Space Daily
'Romance on Moon': In 2002, a NASA intern stole $21 million lunar rocks and put them under the sheets to spend the night with girlfriend
In 2002, NASA intern Thad Roberts and accomplices stole about 17 pounds of lunar samples and a meteorite from the Johnson Space Center, with the mater...
Source: The Times of India
Comet 220P McNaught Puts On An Encore Performance
It has been a busy month for astronomy. In the midst of an eclipse season bookended by the total solar eclipse on August 12th and the deep partial lun...
Source: Universe Today
APOD: 2026 August 24 – Comet 220P in Outburst
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 24 – Comet… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Pi...
Source: NASA
Dry Martian Meteorite Reveals Early Water in Mars's Crust
Billions of years ago, Mars was hypothesized to have been a habitable world with flowing liquid water and the potential for life. But directly studyin...
Source: Universe Today
Mars's Funky Moon Deimos was Shaped by an Impact
Mars' moon Deimos has a large crater on its southern pole. It's also covered by a layer of regolith so deep it buries many other, smaller cr...
Source: Universe Today