Recent highlights
NASA's JWST Infrared Space Telescope has been making spectacular observations from Earth's L2 Lagrange point. Here's a recent paper on isotopic ratios in methane ice on Eris and Makemake. Lots more results are on the way...
NASA's Lucy mission flew past the small main belt asteroid Dinkinesh in November 2023, finding it to have a companion that itself is a contact binary.
The Astrophysical Materials Laboratory at Northern Arizona University is cranking out results. Here's a couple recent examples on measuring vapor pressures of ices of N2, CO, and CH4 and NH3 and O2, and also optical constants using thin films in reflectance.
Looking ahead...
Lucy is en route to explore Jupiter's swarms of Trojan asteroids starting in 2027. This is a class of objects never before seen up close, so all sorts of surprises are in store.
Dinkinesh and Selam