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most citedSeven temperate terrestrial planets around the nearby ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1

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Potential survivable niches for microbial life on the lunar south pole

Prabal Saxena, Stefano Bertone, Heather V. Graham +6

Most lunar surface conditions are incredibly harsh for microbial survival. High ultraviolet radiation, temperatures, and energetic particle radiation limit survival over most unpro…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Physical Analysis of Bennu Samples Reveals Regolith Production by Collisional Disruption on Near-Earth Asteroids

R. -L. Ballouz, A. J. Ryan, R. J. Macke +25

Owing to the extremely low gravity of small near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), it has been assumed that impact-generated rock fragments escape into space and thus do not contribute to th…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 5 cited

Multi-Sensor Trajectory Reconstruction of the 24 April 2025 Alaska Fireball and Implications for Planetary Defense

L. T. Scamfer, E. A. Silber, M. D. Fries +6

On 24 April 2025 at 18:30:57 UTC, a bright daytime fireball over Southcentral Alaska was detected by 37 seismic stations, 16 single infrasound sensors, and four infrasound arrays,…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

HyperScout-H: the hyperspectral imager for the ESA Hera mission

Marcel M. Popescu, Julia de León, George Pantelimon Prodan +16

The HyperScout-H (HS-H) instrument is one of the payloads aboard ESA's Hera spacecraft. Hera is a planetary defence mission that aims to provide a detailed characterization of the…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Compositional characterisation of asteroid (84) Klio with JWST

Tania Le Pivert-Jolivet, Julia de León, Javier Licandro +8

The analysis of the composition of primitive Ccomplex asteroids is essential to understand the distribution of volatiles in the Solar System since its formation. Primitive low-a…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Orbit dissimilarity criteria in meteor showers: a comparative review

Ariane Courtot, Patrick Shober, Jérémie Vaubaillon

In meteor science, the identification of meteor showers is a crucial and complex problem. The most common method is to perform a systematic search of a database of observed orbits…