Just out from the Science media family: Science vol. 390 #6778, December 2025Robin George Andrews, 11 Dec 2025 Planet Protector science.zolm8st Sarah Crespi, Elah Feder, Robin George Andrews 11 Dec 2025 Hunting asteroids from space, and talking to pollinators with… Read More »NEO Surveyor We Cover
There’s a mid-month (15 January 2026, vol. 444) Icarus: Rosenbush, V. Kleshchonok, V. Ivanova, O. et al. A comprehensive study of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in the 2021/2022 apparition. I. Photometry, spectroscopy, mor… Art 116799 .2025.116799Benson, C. I. Scheeres, D. J. The… Read More »Note, Paper: Moving-Object Boogie
At this moment in time (and space): www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17515Jehin, E. Hmiddouch, S. Aravind,K. et al. TRAPPIST first post-perihelion production rates of the Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS ATel #17515, 1 Dec 2025; 09:00 UT The comet has passed perihelion, is still in the inner Solar System,… Read More »ATLAS Gas Snapshot
Quickly, an Astronomers Telegram post on our little visitor: www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17473Pisano, D. J. Smirnov, O. M. Ivchenko, M. et al. Detection of 1665/1667 MHz OH absorption in 3I/ATLAS. ATel #17473, 4 Nov 2025; 10:28 UT Many molecules have spectral features in the far-infrared, submillimeter,… Read More »ATLAS Ast-Tel Gases
Now, the second half of the Hayabusa 2025 meeting, or “12th Symposium of Solar System Materials” November 11–14 in JAXA’s Sagamihara campus: https://curation.isas.jaxa.jp/symposium/ (see also Part I). And now, the relevant, best of the meeting program: https://curation.isas.jaxa.jp/symposium/program/ Nov. 13 S31-01 … Read More »Hayabusa Symposium 2025- Pt. II
In Nature Communications– no, not Nature Astronomy, NatComms- just a week ago (vol. 16): Pilorget, C. Okada, T. Bibring, J. P. et al. Bennu and Ryugu constituents from samples IR analyses and potential source of terrestrial planets’ ingredients p. 9532 … Read More »Note, Paper: Rain in Space Falls Mainly…
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
The Dec Acta Astronautica (vol. 237) has: Schonberg, W. Squire, M. Williamsen, J. et al. Enhancing the protection of shielded thermal protection systems in sample return spacecraft against MMOD impact p. 23 .2025.08.025Buonagura, C. Giordano, C. Cervone, A. et al.… Read More »Note, Paper: Probes… Literal Probes
…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
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