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Want to do NASA research? 24 new US projects backed by $23 million will let citizen scientists hunt comets, study space weather and explore Earth data — all you need to know
NASA has selected 24 organizations to partake in a new Science Activation portfolio aimed at public engagement. This initiative will provide hands-on ...
Source: The Times of India
Asteroid Bennu Has an Identity Crisis, and Jupiter Might Be to Blame
Asteroid sample return missions have brought well preserved samples of the early solar system (that hadn’t been roasted in a fireball) back to Earth f...
Source: Universe Today
What’s Up: October 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA
A Meteor Shower and the Moon Near the Pleiades See Saturn at opposition, catch the Orionid meteor shower, and watch the Moon pass close to the Pleiade...
Source: NASA
ESA And JAXA's Planetary Defense Mission Powers On For The First Time
There’s a once-in-a-millennia astronomical opportunity coming up in about three years, and space agencies are rushing to make sure they’re ready for i...
Source: Universe Today
Asteroids Named After Tom Lehrer and 'Weird Al' Yankovic
"Weird Al" Yankovic's name has just been approved for a new asteroid — (14331) Alyankovic = 1981 EC26 — by the International Astronomic...
Source: Slashdot.org
“Weird Al” Hopes New Asteroid Named in His Honor Doesn’t Bring on the Alpocalypse
"Weird Al" Yankovic has received the astronomical honor of having an asteroid named after him, with (14331) Alyankovic sitting between Mars ...
Source: Consequence.net
APOD: 2026 September 26 – Mirrored Meteor and Milky Way
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 26 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Pictu...
Source: NASA
New Lunar Crater Offers Keys To Moon’s Shallow Subsurface
Asteroids which strike the Moon and create new craters offer lunar scientists a window onto the workings of our natural satellite’s shallow subsurface...
Source: Universe Today
How Diffractive Solar Sails Could Stop a Killer Asteroid at 100 km/s
Asteroids don’t come with a warning label that they might one day hit Earth. While we don’t know of any currently on course to do so, we are finding t...
Source: Universe Today
Space Rocks Carry Hundreds of Thousands of Complex Organic Molecules—and We Just Photographed Them
Scientists have known for a while that meteorites contain the “building blocks” of life - complex organic molecules such as amino acids, simple sugars...
Source: Universe Today
Scientists Release Details About Moon's New Massive Crater
It's easy to think of the Moon as the static constant companion in the night sky. Its face hasn’t visibly changed in millennia, and always faces ...
Source: Universe Today
The road to the asteroid belt runs through the Moon
NASA is leading a new effort to develop a lunar base, one that requires development of many technologies needed to live on the lunar surface for exten...
Source: The Space Review
APOD: 2026 September 13 – Comet NEOWISE Rising over the Adriatic Sea
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 13 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Pictu...
Source: NASA
On this day in space! Sept. 11, 1985: The International Cometary Explorer makes 1st comet flyby in history for NASA and Europe
On Sept. 11, 1985, the International Cometary Explorer, or "ICE," became the first spacecraft to fly by a comet. Here's why it mattered...
Source: Space.com
Japan'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