It’s time for Hayabusa 2025, or properly, the “12th Symposium of Solar System Materials” (November 11–14) at JAXA’s Sagamihara campus: https://curation.isas.jaxa.jp/symposium/ This is the annual meeting of sample return science, first held to discuss the results of Hayabusa’s newly-available sample… Read More »Hayabusa Symposium 2025- Pt. I
…and for the volatile lovers: also 2025 (vol. 221): Dickers, M. D. Mifsud, D. V. Mason, N. J. Multiscale Perspectives on Solid-Phase Astrochemistry: Laboratory, Computation, and Open Questions art. 106 s11214-025-01228-9 We see gas and dust in space. The gas… Read More »SpaceSciRev: Dawn Frost Post
The 6th COSPAR (Committee on Space Research) Symposium is taking place in Nicosia, Cyprus (no, I didn’t fly there) this Nov 3-7: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/symposia/ COSPAR: a bit of a big deal. Therefore, their meeting is big. Maybe too big; I’ll try… Read More »2025 COSPAR Symposium, Nicosia
Happy Samhain, All Saints Day, etc. to all who celebrate. Speaking of things coming from Europe, good Astronomy & Astrophysics for October (vol. 702): Santana-Ros, T. Ivanova, O. Mykhailova, S. et al. Temporal evolution of the third interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS:… Read More »Note, Paper: You Shed Some, You Accrete Some
It’s the day before Halloween, but Space Sci Rev (vol. 221) makes it feel like Christmas: Horányi, M. Tucker, S. Sternovsky, Z. et al. Interstellar Dust Experiment (IDEX) OnboardNASA’s Interstellar Mapping And Acceleration Probe (IMAP) art. 102 s11214-025-01230-1Wang, Y. Zhang,… Read More »Space Science Reviews, …whew
Wow, what an Icarus issue for 15 Nov (vol. 441): Wesołowski, M. Bober, Z. Ożóg, Ł. et al. Is it possible to create a realistic structure of a cometary nucleus analog in the laboratory? Art. 116646Michikami, T. Hagermann, A. Statistical… Read More »Note, Paper: Stats And Smatterings Chatterings
This week’s Science (23 Oct 2025, vol. 390, #6771) proudly features: Andy Lawrence, Interstellar visitors: Smoking and nonsmoking aec2085 Not only was this editorial commissioned by the title (the flagship title of the Science family), but it was blurbed prominently… Read More »Billions and Billions of… Not-Stars
No less than Nature (actually Nature Astronomy, still within the Nature family) states: -, Big realities for small bodies 1407 s41550-025-02701-9 Couldn’t have put it better myself. This is an editorial introduction to the October issue (vol. 9), in which… Read More »“Big Realities for Small Bodies”
In Advances in Space Research, 1 Nov (vol. 76, #9): Chai, J. Mei, J. Gong, Y. et al. Analysis of a conceptual multi-node flexible small body lander: Bounce suppression and active control Pgs 5471 .2025.08.008 Again, landing on an asteroid is,… Read More »Note, Paper: Philae Astray, No Way
Today, in Space Science Reviews (vol. 221): Bannister, M., Pfalzner, S., Pearce, T. et al. The Origins & Reservoirs of Exocomets 90 s11214-025-01219-w Coming on the heels of the Solar System in Context meeting (noirlab.edu/science/events/websites/solar-system-in-context-2025), we have a ‘comets in… Read More »Space Science Reviews Exocomets