spacetoday.net: News links for the topic planetary science

Thursday, June 18

A secretive Chinese probe has just arrived at one of Earth's 'quasi-moons' and will soon attempt a first-of-its-kind landing
LiveScience — 4:56 am ET (0856 GMT)

Was life delivered to Earth by asteroids with a helping hand from Jupiter?
SPACE.com — 4:20 am ET (0820 GMT)

Wednesday, June 17

Dozens of dust devils hidden in plain sight
ESA — 5:55 am ET (0955 GMT)

Researchers chart distinct evolutionary paths of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes
Xinhua — 5:50 am ET (0950 GMT)

Tianwen-2 makes series of burns on approach to asteroid, according to radio tracking
Space News — 5:42 am ET (0942 GMT)

NASA’s Webb Catches Exoplanet Getting Roasted
NASA/GSFC — 5:24 am ET (0924 GMT)

Tuesday, June 16

Good news—we have extra time before the Sun ends life on Earth
Ars Technica — 5:29 am ET (0929 GMT)

SwRI, collaborators sign MOU to develop a lunar research initiative
SwRI — 5:25 am ET (0925 GMT)

Sunday, June 14

‘It blows my mind’: Astrobiologist weighs in on latest findings from NASA’s Curiosity rover
Texas A&M Univ. — 7:47 am ET (1147 GMT)

Artemis II is already changing what we know about the Moon. I'm a geologist – this is how the mission science is unlocking key lunar secrets
BBC — 6:01 am ET (1001 GMT)

Saturday, June 13

Did A Moon-Size Planet Grow Fast and Die Young in the Early Solar System?
Sky & Telescope — 7:19 am ET (1119 GMT)

Friday, June 12

Mars was once wet with a thick atmosphere. 3 billion years ago, both disappeared. Now scientists may have finally found Mars’s missing atmosphere and water
BBC — 5:55 am ET (0955 GMT)

China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft arrives at one of Earth’s mysterious ‘quasi-moons’
Scientific American — 5:31 am ET (0931 GMT)

Thursday, June 11

Georgia Tech scientists create Moon rock in the lab
Eurekalert — 6:00 am ET (1000 GMT)

Cloudy dawn on the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-121 b
ConnectSci — 5:56 am ET (0956 GMT)

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have created a vast underground habitat for life that lasted 8 million years
SPACE.com — 5:41 am ET (0941 GMT)

Hundreds of new moons are revealing our solar system's violent history
New Scientist — 5:35 am ET (0935 GMT)

Wednesday, June 10

Japan’s Hayabusa2 to observe asteroid Torifune during July flyby
Japan Times — 7:05 am ET (1105 GMT)

Scientists Discover A 3.5-Billion-Year-Old Asteroid Impact on the Moon
Geological Society of America — 6:48 am ET (1048 GMT)

Tuesday, June 9

Impact history of early Earth created conditions conducive to life
SwRI — 5:26 am ET (0926 GMT)

Next set of articles

SpaceX shares rise in IPO
Posted: Sat, Jun 13 10:21 AM ET (1421 GMT)

H3 rocket returns to flight
Posted: Sat, Jun 13 10:08 AM ET (1408 GMT)

Thales and Airbus to build next-generation radar imaging satellites
Posted: Sat, Jun 13 10:02 AM ET (1402 GMT)

Thursday, June 18

ESA Studies Doubling Ariane 6 Flight Cadence
Aviation Week — 5:21 am ET (0921 GMT)

Northrop Grumman to Advance Military’s Protected Satellite Communications
Northrop Grumman — 5:20 am ET (0920 GMT)

Two Offices Face a Shaky Future in U.S. Space Force Acquisition Overhaul
Aviation Week — 5:20 am ET (0920 GMT)

Eutelsat Secures First Order Under French Defense Agreement
ViaSatellite — 5:20 am ET (0920 GMT)

Blue Origin Says It Will Launch a New Glenn Rocket This Year
Bloomberg News — 5:16 am ET (0916 GMT)

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