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From Flybys to Sample Return: A Review of Space Probes and Robotic Sampling Technologies for Small Bodies

Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 43, Issue 7, Page 4475-4514, October 2026.
ABSTRACT As a crucial puzzle piece of deep space exploration, exploring small bodies can provide significant scientific insights and valuable mineral resources. Unlike missions to the Moon and Mars, small‐body missions pose distinct technical challenges, including communication delays, weak gravity, and uncertain environments. This paper reviews a full
Xin Zhang, Hao Zhou, Dalin Zhou, Zhaojie Ju   +3 more
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A Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Sunflower Sea Star Transcriptomic Responses to Challenge With Sea Star Wasting Disease Tissue Homogenates

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 9, September 2026.
Sunflower sea stars have been hard hit by sea star wasting disease (SSWD), losing over 5 billion individuals along their natural range from Alaska and Southern California. This work uses transcriptomics to investigate the immune response of adult and juvenile sunflower sea stars exposed to SSWD.
Grace Crandall, Alyssa‐Lois M. Gehman, Katherine Davis, Melanie B. Prentice, Drew Harvell, Samuel J. White, Paul Hershberger, Steven Roberts   +7 more
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Drone Delivery Packing Problem on a Neutral‐Atom Quantum Computer

Advanced Quantum Technologies, Volume 9, Issue 9, September 2026.
This research models the Drone Delivery Packing Problem as a battery‐constrained graph partitioning. We use Pasqal's Fresnel QPU to sample time‐feasible single‐drone schedules, with tunable delivery targets via hardware parameters, and enforce battery limits by greedy post‐processing.
Sara Tarquini, Matteo Vandelli, Francesco Ferrari, Daniele Dragoni, Francesco Tudisco   +4 more
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Atypical Fibrotic‐Mimicking Pulmonary Sarcoidosis in a Young Female: The Basal Conundrum

Respirology Case Reports, Volume 14, Issue 9, September 2026.
We present a case of pulmonary sarcoidosis in a young female who had a confounding basal‐peripheral phenotype, eventually diagnosed through endobronchial biopsy showing non‐necrotizing granulomas with asteroid bodies. ABSTRACT Pulmonary sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory disease characterized by the formation of non‐caseating granulomas; it ...
Ali Gohar, Aemin Tariq, Arham Saif, Asma Farooq, Esha Aziz, Muhammad Husnain Ahmad   +5 more
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DreamSat-2.0: Towards a General Single-View Asteroid 3D Reconstruction

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To enhance asteroid exploration and autonomous spacecraft navigation, we introduce DreamSat-2.0, a pipeline that benchmarks three state-of-the-art 3D reconstruction models-Hunyuan-3D, Trellis-3D, and Ouroboros-3D-on custom spacecraft and asteroid datasets.
Santiago Diaz, Xinghui Hu, Josiane Uwumukiza, Giovanni Lavezzi, Víctor Rodríguez-Fernández, Richard Linares   +5 more
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Ferric Chloride: The Venusian Unknown UV Absorber?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 131, Issue 9, September 2026.
Abstract Near‐ultraviolet imaging of the planet Venus reveals inhomogeneous absorption features in the otherwise bright clouds. This absorption has been studied for nearly 100 years, but identification of the near‐UV absorber remains one of the largest open questions in Venusian research.
Joanna V. Egan, Wuhu Feng, Alexander D. James, James Manners, Daniel R. Marsh, Sébastien Lebonnois, Franck Lefèvre, Aurélien Stolzenbach, John M. C. Plane   +8 more
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Different Frontier, Same Legal Script? On the Course of Replicating Earth's Patterns in Space

The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 5, Page 723-759, September 2026.
As states and private actors expand their activities in outer space, the international legal framework governing this domain risks extending longstanding structures of global inequality beyond Earth. This article examines how international space law, shaped by a broader disciplinary pattern of reactive legal development, is poised to reproduce ...
Sivan Shlomo‐Agon, Michal Saliternik
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The Great Cosmic Silence: What Does the Fermi Paradox Tell About the Future of Humanity?

Global Policy, Volume 17, Issue 4, Page 553-565, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how institutional time horizons shape the long‐term survival prospects of human technological civilisation. While research on global catastrophic and existential risks has expanded, the temporal structures of political‐economic institutions remain underexamined.
Heikki Patomäki
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Bolide light curve systematics from 75 recovered meteorites

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, Volume 61, Issue 9, Page 2351-2392, September 2026.
Abstract How does the energy deposition profile (light curve), deceleration, and penetration depth in Earth's atmosphere depend on asteroid composition and meteorite type? Here, we present the light curve and velocity profile of 75 bolides from camera‐documented meteorite falls.
Peter Jenniskens, Stuart Pilorz, Darrel Robertson, Eric C. Stern   +3 more
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Microstructural evidence for multiple generations of sulfide precipitation and impact‐induced thermal alteration under acidic conditions on Asteroid Ryugu

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, Volume 61, Issue 9, Page 2201-2217, September 2026.
Abstract Here we report on the microstructure and chemistry of sulfide minerals returned from asteroid (162173) Ryugu. We identify a unique sulfide population in particle A0016 composed of violarite (FeNi2S4), pyrite (FeS2), chalcopyrite (CuFeS2), pyrrhotite (Fe1‐xS), and pentlandite ([Fe,Ni]9S8).
M. C. Benner, B. S. Prince, D. L. Schrader, T. J. Zega   +3 more
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