Solar system bodies are not isolated from each other. Earth, for example, encounters a suite of objects—interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) and small bodies commonly referred to as the interplanetary ...

Cosmic Dust: More Common Than You Think When someone mentions objects from space, most of us imagine meteorites blazing ...

Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is hiding it from Earth When Comet 3I/ATLAS roared into the solar system this ...

Interplanetary dust as a research area focuses on the origin, composition, dynamics, and evolution of micron- to millimeter-sized solid particles distributed throughout the Solar System. Studies ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is hitting a major milestone on Oct. 30, 2025. The interstellar comet is reaching perihelion, its closest point to our Sun, marking the climax of its brief journey through our solar ...

Baseline Recommendation: Support research programs for interpreting the spectra of near-Earth objects (NEOs), continue and coordinate currently supported surveys to discover and determine the orbits ...

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft is on its way to rendezvous with comet 1998 KY26. Could it be unwittingly chasing and old Soviet ...

FORGET sending spacecraft to collect pristine dust from comets to help us study the primordial solar system. It seems the right stuff is lying around here on Earth: some meteorites contain organic ...

Comets of this type aren't everyday sightings. The opportunity to observe objects that might have orbital periods measured in thousands of years is fleeting. So when Comet Lemmon recently appeared in ...

Interplanetary dust as a research area focuses on the origin, composition, dynamics, and evolution of micron- to millimeter-sized solid particles distributed throughout the Solar System. Studies ...