Hydration Features on Vesta’s Surface Seen by the Dawn Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (VIR) Data
Shuai Li JGR Planets, First Published: 24 January 2026 LINK “Key Points “Understanding the sources of hydration on Vesta’s surface provides insights into water origins in the inner solar system. We estimated the hydration content…
Graphite crystallinity and thermal record in Campo del Cielo IAB iron meteorite: A window into impact processing on a chondritic bodyOPEN ACCESS
Xiao Tian Deng, Hong Yi Chen, Yang Li, Jin Yu Zhang, Lan Fang Xie, Si Zhe Zhao, Zhuang Guo, Chen Li, Kai Rui Tai MAPS, Version of Record online: 24 January 2026 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF…
The effect of early diagenetic processes on the quantification of fossil micrometeorite abundance and flux in the geological recordOPEN ACCESS
Isabelle S. Mattia, Matthew J. Genge, Martin D. Suttle MAPS, Version of Record online: 24 January 2026 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Fossil micrometeorites (MMs) recovered from lithified sedimentary rocks, particularly iron-rich (I-type) cosmic spherules…
Alkali recondensation into chondrulesOPEN ACCESS
Emmanuel Jacquet, Yves Marrocchi, Sébastien Charnoz Icarus, In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 23 January 2026 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights “While sub-mm melt droplets should rapidly lose alkali elements in a vacuum at…
Distance-Independent Atmospheric Refraction Correction for Accurate Retrieval of Fireball TrajectoriesOPEN ACCESS
Jaakko Visuri, Maria Gritsevich, Janne Sievinen Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, published: 23 January 2026 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Accurate determination of fireball direction is essential for retrieving…
Diffusion of Ga, Mo, and W in Vestan Melts: Implications for Kinetic Control on Element Partitioning During Vestan Core Differentiation
Yifan Li, Li Zhang, Huaiwei Ni Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, First Published: 22 January 2026 LINK “Key Points: “Siderophile elements tend to transfer from the magma ocean to the metallic core during core formation…
Reflectance spectroscopy (200-4200 nm) of the red-sloped C2 carbonaceous chondrites MET 00432, Tagish Lake, Tarda, and WIS 91600 (“CT” grouplet)
Edward A. Cloutis, Devin L. Schrader, Daniel M. Applin, Tomoki Nakamura, Timothy D. Glotch, Takahiro Hiroi, Moe Matsuoka, Michael E. Zolensky, Joshua P. Emery, Kristi M. Peters Icarus, In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 22…
A mantle source formed after the lunar magma ocean crystallisation for the 3000 Ma-old lunar basaltsOPEN ACCESS
R. E. Merle, C. Deligny, M. J. Whitehouse, G. G. Kenny & K. K. Larsen Communications Earth & Environment, Published: 22 January 2026We are providing an unedited version of this manuscript to give early access…
Alkali recondensation into chondrulesOPEN ACCESS
Emmanuel Jacquet, Yves Marrocchi, Sébastien Charnoz Accepted to Icarus, 21 January 2026 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “While sub-mm melt droplets should rapidly lose alkali elements in a vacuum at liquidus temperatures, chondrules are only modestly depleted…
Decameter-sized Earth Impactors — II: A Bayesian Inference Approach to Meteoroid Ablation ModelingOPEN ACCESS
Ian Chow, Peter G. Brown Accepted 18 January 2026 for publication in JGR: PlanetsSupporting information to be published by the journal along with the paper PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Small asteroids and large meteoroids frequently impact…
Data-driven classification of ordinary chondrites and asteroidal metal potential evaluationOPEN ACCESS
Tian-Yu Liu, Si-Jia Wei, Ke-Li Shi, Tian-Qi Qiu, Jun-Zhe Teng & Zheng-Jie Qiu Scientific reports, Published: 20 January 2026 We are providing an unedited version of this manuscript to give early access to its findings….
Crossing boundaries: Brachinites and their diverse asteroidal originsOPEN ACCESS
B.G. Rider-Stokes, F.A. Davies, T.H. Burbine, E. MacLennan, R.C. Greenwood, S.L. Jackson, M. Anand, D. Sheikh, M.M. Grady IcarusAvailable online 21 January 2026, 116965 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights “Brachinite meteorites are typically linked…
Constraints on the impactor flux to the Earth–Moon system from oxygen isotopes of the lunar regolith
Anthony M. Gargano, Justin I. Simon, Erick Cano, Karen Ziegler, Charles K. Shearer, James M. D. Day, and Zachary Sharp PNAS: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary SciencesJanuary 20, 2026, 123 (4) e2531796123 LINK “Significance: Lunar regolith…
An interstellar energetic and non-aqueous pathway to peptide formation
Alfred Thomas Hopkinson, Ann Mary Wilson, Joe Pitfield, Alejandra Traspas Muiña, Richárd Rácz, Duncan V. Mifsud, Péter Herczku, Gergö Lakatos, Béla Sulik, Zoltán Juhász, Sándor Biri, Robert W. McCullough, Nigel J. Mason, Carsten Scavenius, Liv…
Influence of minerals on aldose formation during hydrothermal processes in meteorite parent bodiesOPEN ACCESS
Taiyu Fujii, Shunpei Abe, Naoki Hirakawa, Kensei Kobayashi & Yoko Kebukawa Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, Volume 13, article number 6, Published: 20 January 2026 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Various prebiotic organic compounds…
New evidence on the formation conditions of the Libyan Desert Glass (Western Egypt): Clues from a dendritic zircon inclusionOPEN ACCESS
Niccolò Magnani, Enrico Mugnaioli, Sofia Lorenzon, Lidia Pittarello, Tatiana E. Gorelik, Matteo Masotta, Luigi Folco MAPS, Version of Record online: 16 January 2026 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Libyan Desert Glass (LDG) is an ~29…
Surface Modifications of a Space-weathered Ryugu Sample and the Reflectance Spectral ResponseOPEN ACCESS
Hotaka Onuma, Megumi Matsumoto, Tomoki Nakamura, Kana Amano, Taiga Takase, Kazuhiko Ninomiya and Hideko Nomura The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 7, Number 1, Published: 16 January 2026 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Reflectance spectra from…
Surface rejuvenation of stony near-Earth asteroids triggered by planetary shadows
Kohei Kitazato, Sho Sakurai, Ryuki Hyodo & Naru Hirata Nature Geoscience, Published: 15 January 2026 LINK “Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are small, airless bodies that orbit in near-Earth space. Recent studies suggest that their surface rocks…
Instantaneous thermally-driven erosion can explain dearth of dark near-Sun asteroidsOPEN ACCESS
Georgios Tsirvoulis, Mikael Granvik, Leonard Schirner, Athanasia Toliou, Jooyeon Geem, Axel Hagermann PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Recent models of the near-Earth asteroid population show that asteroids must be super-catastrophically destroyed when they evolve to orbits with…
Growth and thermal evolution of icy planetesimalsOPEN ACCESS
Jun Kimura, Ryusei Sato, Kentaro Terada & Sho Sasaki Earth, Planets and Space, article number, Published: 13 January 2026unedited version of this manuscript LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Icy planetesimals are thought to contribute to…
Formation of Asteroid (16) Psyche by a Giant ImpactOPEN ACCESS
Saverio Cambioni, Benjamin P. Weiss, Namya Baijal, Robert Melikyan, Erik Asphaug, John B. Biersteker, Richard P. Binzel, William F. Bottke, Samuel W. Courville, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, David J. Lawrence, José M. G. Merayo, Carol A….
Reprocessing of lunar crust at ∼4.3 Ga inferred from in situ U-Pb isotopic and trace element investigation of Northwest Africa 11479
Jingyou Chen, Shaolin Li, Shiyong Liao, Jian Chen, Alexander Nemchin, Katherine H. Joy, Xiaochao Che, Weibiao Hsu, Menghua Zhu Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 11 January 2026 LINK “The increasing…
The New Space Race Era: The Exogeoheritage Challenge and Its ConservationOPEN ACCESS
B. De Toffoli JGR Planets, First Published: 9 January 2026 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Key Points “The escalating pace of space exploration has ushered in a new era reminiscent of the space race of…
Two-source terrestrial planet formation with a sweeping secular resonanceOPEN ACCESS
Max Goldberg, David Nesvorný, Alessandro Morbidelli Accepted for publication in AJ, 6 January 2026 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The models that most successfully reproduce the orbital architecture of the Solar System terrestrial planets start…
Undetection of Australasian microtektites in three boreholes from the Beijing PlainOPEN ACCESS
Pan Yan, Zhiyong Xiao, Luigi Folco, Yunhua Wu, Zhi Cao, Qing Pan & Yong Zhao npj Space Exploration, Volume 2, Article number: 3, Published: 07 January 2026 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The geographic boundary…
The NASA Psyche Mission: The First up-Close Exploration of a Metal-Rich WorldOPEN ACCESS
James F. Bell III, Lindy Elkins-Tanton & Carol A. Polanskey Space Science Reviews, Volume 222, article number 5, Published: 03 January 2026 Editorial Notes of the collection “The NASA Psyche Mission: Science Instruments and Investigations”…
Sustained recycling of anorthite-rich inclusions by outer-disk chondrule heating events
Mingming Zhang, Kohei Fukuda, Michael J. Tappa, William O. Nachlas, Bil Schneider, Makoto Kimura, Kouki Kitajima, Ann M. Bauer, Noriko T. Kita Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 2 January 2026 LINK…
A Change of the Rotation Period of Asteroid (65803) Didymos Caused by the DART ImpactOPEN ACCESS
Josef Ďurech, Petr Pravec, Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Derek C. Richardson, Harrison Agrusa and Ryota Nakano The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 6, Number 12, Published: 31 December 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “On 2022 September 26,…
Meteoritical Bulletin updates
- Northwest Africa 18324 (Eucrite-br)
- Northwest Africa 18312 (L3)
- Northwest Africa 18316 (LL3)
- Northwest Africa 18318 (LL3)
- Northwest Africa 18317 (LL3)
- Northwest Africa 18307 (H3-6)
- Northwest Africa 18296 (H3)
- Northwest Africa 18288 (Eucrite-melt breccia)
- Northwest Africa 17282 (CV3)
- Northwest Africa 18283 (LL3)
- Northwest Africa 18284 (LL3-5)
- Northeast Africa 122 (R3-5)
- Northwest Africa 18282 (LL3)
- Northwest Africa 18272 (Diogenite)
- Oued El Hamim 004 (Ureilite)
- Northwest Africa 17931 (Eucrite-cm)
- Akhiam (Eucrite)
- Ganq 030 (L3.15)
- Sueilila 008 (Lunar (melt breccia))
- Northwest Africa 18140 (Angrite)
