Current Grants

• Co-I, Alien Earths, NASA
• PI, Characterizing Resonant Kuiper Belt Objects with Directional Statistics, NASA
• Co-I, Tools for Advanced Dynamical Characterization of Solar System Small Bodies: NASA
• Co-I, Characterizing Multi-planet Systems with Integrated Demographics, NASA

Current Spacecraft Involvement

• James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
• OSIRIS-REx

Former Spacecraft Involvement

• Interstellar Probe Science Definition Team, 1999-2004

Student Collaborations/Advising

(Current in boldface)

• Brenae Bailey (APPMATH)
• Theodore Broeren (APPMATH)
• Garett Brown (University of Toronto)
• Saverio Cambioni (PTYS)
• Jose Daniel Castro Cisneros (PHYS)
• Zherui Chen (Tsinghua University)
• Jeremy Dietrich (ASTR)
• Michael Hammer (ASTR)
• Hamish Hay (PTYS)
• Nathan Hendler (PTYS)
• Youngmin JeongAhn (PTYS)
• Lei Lan (Tsinghua University)
• Po-Yen Liu (NCU-Taiwan)
• David Lomeli (PHYS+ASTR)
• Ian Matheson (AME)
• David Minton (PTYS)
• Amaya Moro-Martin (ASTR)
• Sarah Morrison (PTYS)
• Logan Pearce (ASTR)
• Jessica Pillow (APPMATH)
• Nathan Reiland (AME)
• Timothy Rodigas (ASTR)
• Supriya Roy (Stanford Online High School)
• Benjamin Sharkey (PTYS)
• Rachel Smullen (ASTR)
• Adam Sutherland (ASTR)
• Matthew Tiscareno (PTYS)
• Kathryn Volk (PTYS)
• Xianyu Wang (Tsinghua University)
• Nan Zhang  (Tsinghua University)

Former Postdocs

• Kathryn Volk
• Joseph Hahn
• Stephen Kortenkamp

Former Research/Staff Scientists

• Kathryn Volk

Based on Google Scholar and NASA ADS - Years 2019 through June 2025

Castro-Cisneros, Jose Daniel, Malhotra, Renu, & Rosengren, Aaron J. 2025, Icarus. The sensitivity to initial conditions of the co-orbital outcomes of lunar ejecta

Malhotra, Renu & Ito, Takashi 2025, Apj. The Doubly Librating Plutinos

Su, Kate Y. L., Gáspár, András, Rieke, George H., Malhotra, Renu, Matrá, Luca, Wolff, Schuyler Grace, Leisenring, Jarron M., Beichman, Charles, & Ygouf, Marie 2024, The Astrophysical Journal. Imaging of the Vega Debris System Using JWST/MIRI

Volk, Kathryn & Malhotra, Renu 2024, The Astronomical Journal. Differences between Stable and Unstable Architectures of Compact Planetary Systems

Jiao, Yifei, Cheng, Bin, Huang, Yukun, Asphaug, Erik, Gladman, Brett, Malhotra, Renu, Michel, Patrick, Yu, Yang, & Baoyin, Hexi 2024, Nature Astronomy. Asteroid Kamo`oalewa's journey from the lunar Giordano Bruno crater to Earth 1:1 resonance

Dietrich, Jeremy, Malhotra, Renu, & Apai, Dániel 2024, The Astronomical Journal. Statistical Distribution Function of Orbital Spacings in Planetary Systems

Castro-Cisneros, Jose Daniel, Malhotra, Renu, & Rosengren, Aaron J. 2023, Communications Earth and Environment. Lunar ejecta origin of near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa is compatible with rare orbital pathways

Castro-Cisneros, J.D., Malhotra, R. & Rosengren, A.J. 2023, Commun Earth Environ. Lunar ejecta origin of near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa is compatible with rare orbital pathways

Schwamb, Megan E., Jones, R. Lynne, Yoachim, Peter, Volk, Kathryn, Dorsey, Rosemary C., Opitom, Cyrielle, Greenstreet, Sarah, Lister, Tim, Snodgrass, Colin, Bolin, Bryce T., Inno, Laura, Bannister, Michele T., Eggl, Siegfried, Solontoi, Michael, Kelley, Michael S. P., Jurić, Mario, Lin, Hsing Wen, Ragozzine, Darin, Bernardinelli, Pedro H., Chesley, Steven R., Daylan, Tansu, Ďurech, Josef, Fraser, Wesley C., Granvik, Mikael, Knight, Matthew M., Lisse, Carey M., Malhotra, Renu, Oldroyd, William J., Thirouin, Audrey, & Ye, Quanzhi 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. Tuning the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Observing Strategy for Solar System Science

Malhotra, Renu & Roy, Supriya 2023, Res. Notes AAS. Modeling the Free Inclinations of the Classical Kuiper Belt with the von Mises–Fisher Distribution

Matheson, I.C., & Malhotra, R., Keane, J.T., 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. A von Mises–Fisher distribution for the orbital poles of the plutinos

Matheson, I.C., & Malhotra, R., 2023, Astronomical Journal. A Measurement of the Kuiper Belt's Mean Plane From Objects Classified By Machine Learning

Malhotra, Renu & Chen, Zherui 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Non-perturbative investigation of low eccentricity exterior mean motion resonances

Volk, Kathryn & Malhotra, Renu 2022, The Astrophysical Journal. Orbital Dynamics Landscape near the Most Distant Known Trans-Neptunian Objects

Malhotra, Renu & Ito, Takashi 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Pluto near the edge of chaos

Dietrich, Jeremy, Apai, Dániel, & Malhotra, Renu 2022, The Astronomical Journal. An Integrative Analysis of the HD 219134 Planetary System and the Inner solar system: Extending DYNAMITE with Enhanced Orbital Dynamical Stability Criteria

Sharkey, Benjamin N. L., Reddy, Vishnu, Malhotra, Renu, Thirouin, Audrey, Kuhn, Olga, Conrad, Albert, Rothberg, Barry, Sanchez, Juan A., Thompson, David, & Veillet, Christian 2021, Communications Earth and Environment. Lunar-like silicate material forms the Earth quasi-satellite (469219) 2016 HO<SUB>3</SUB> Kamoʻoalewa

Reiland, N., Rosengren, A. J., Malhotra, R., Bombardelli, C. 2021, Advances in Space Research Assessing and minimizing collisions in satellite mega-constellations

Agol, E., Dorn, C., Grimm, S. L., Turbet, M., Ducrot, E., Delrez, L., Gillon, M., Demory, B.-O., Burdanov, A., Barkaoui, K., Benkhaldoun, Z., Bolmont, E., Burgasser, A., Carey, S., de Wit, J., Fabrycky, D., Foreman-Mackey, D., Haldemann, J., Hernandez, D. M., Ingalls, J., Jehin, E., Langford, Z., Leconte, J., Lederer, S. M., Luger, R., Malhotra, R., Meadows, V. S., Morris, B. M., Pozuelos, F. J., Queloz, D., Raymond, S. N., Selsis, F., Sestovic, M., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Van Grootel, V. 2021, The Planetary Science Journal Refining the Transit-timing and Photometric Analysis of TRAPPIST-1: Masses, Radii, Densities, Dynamics, and Ephemerides

Hendler, Nathanial P. & Malhotra, Renu 2020, The Planetary Science Journal. Observational Completion Limit of Minor Planets from the Asteroid Belt to Jupiter Trojans

Petrovich, Cristobal, Muñoz, Diego J., Kratter, Kaitlin M., & Malhotra, Renu 2020, The Astrophysical Journal. A Disk-driven Resonance as the Origin of High Inclinations of Close-in Planets

Barnouin, O. S.,  et al. (including Malhotra, R.) 2020, Nature Geoscience. Author Correction: Shape of (101955) Bennu indicative of a rubble pile with internal stiffness

Volk, Kathryn & Malhotra, Renu 2020, The Astronomical Journal. Dynamical Instabilities in Systems of Multiple Short-period Planets Are Likely Driven by Secular Chaos: A Case Study of Kepler-102

Malhotra, Renu & Zhang, Nan 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. On the divergence of first-order resonance widths at low eccentricities

Malhotra, Renu & Ingersoll, Andrew P. 2020, Icarus. Adam P. Showman (1968-2020)

Amato, Davide, Malhotra, Renu, Sidorenko, Vladislav, & Rosengren, Aaron J. 2020, Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy. Lunar close encounters compete with the circumterrestrial Lidov-Kozai effect

Hendler, Nathanial, Pascucci, Ilaria, Pinilla, Paola, Tazzari, Marco, Carpenter, John, Malhotra, Renu, & Testi, Leonardo 2020, The Astrophysical Journal. The Evolution of Dust Disk Sizes from a Homogeneous Analysis of 1-10 Myr old Stars

Markwardt, Larissa, Gerdes, D. W., Malhotra, R., Becker, J. C., Hamilton, S. J., & Adams, F. C. 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Search for L5 Earth Trojans with DECam

Malhotra, R. The case for a deep search for Earth’s Trojan asteroids. Nat Astron 3, 193–194 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0697-z

Malhotra, Renu 2019, Geoscience Letters. Resonant Kuiper belt objects: a review

Lan, Lei & Malhotra, Renu 2019, Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy. Neptune's resonances in the scattered disk

Volk, Kathryn & Malhotra, Renu 2019, The Astronomical Journal. Not a Simple Relationship between Neptune’s Migration Speed and Kuiper Belt Inclination Excitation

Su, Kate Y. L., Jackson, Alan P., Gáspár, András, Rieke, George H., Dong, Ruobing, Olofsson, Johan, Kennedy, G. M., Leinhardt, Zoë M., Malhotra, Renu, Hammer, Michael, Meng, Huan Y. A., Rujopakarn, W., Rodriguez, Joseph E., Pepper, Joshua, Reichart, D. E., James, David, & Stassun, Keivan G. 2019, The Astronomical Journal. Extreme Debris Disk Variability: Exploring the Diverse Outcomes of Large Asteroid Impacts During the Era of Terrestrial Planet Formation

Walsh, K. J., Jawin, E. R., Ballouz, R. -L., Barnouin, O. S., Bierhaus, E. B., Connolly, H. C., Molaro, J. L., McCoy, T. J., Delbo', M., Hartzell, C. M., Pajola, M., Schwartz, S. R., Trang, D., Asphaug, E., Becker, K. J., Beddingfield, C. B., Bennett, C. A., Bottke, W. F., Burke, K. N., Clark, B. C., Daly, M. G., Dellagiustina, D. N., Dworkin, J. P., Elder, C. M., Golish, D. R., Hildebrand, A. R., Malhotra, R., Marshall, J., Michel, P., Nolan, M. C., Perry, M. E., Rizk, B., Ryan, A., Sandford, S. A., Scheeres, D. J., Susorney, H. C. M., Thuillet, F., Lauretta, D. S., & Osiris-Rex Team 2019, Nature Geoscience. Publisher Correction: Craters, boulders and regolith of (101955) Bennu indicative of an old and dynamic surface

Barnouin, O. S., et al. (including Malhotra, R.) 2019, Nature Geoscience. Shape of (101955) Bennu indicative of a rubble pile with internal stiffness

Walsh, K. J., Jawin, E. R., Ballouz, R. -L., Barnouin, O. S., Bierhaus, E. B., Connolly, H. C., Molaro, J. L., McCoy, T. J., Delbo', M., Hartzell, C. M., Pajola, M., Schwartz, S. R., Trang, D., Asphaug, E., Becker, K. J., Beddingfield, C. B., Bennett, C. A., Bottke, W. F., Burke, K. N., Clark, B. C., Daly, M. G., Dellagiustina, D. N., Dworkin, J. P., Elder, C. M., Golish, D. R., Hildebrand, A. R., Malhotra, R., Marshall, J., Michel, P., Nolan, M. C., Perry, M. E., Rizk, B., Ryan, A., Sandford, S. A., Scheeres, D. J., Susorney, H. C. M., Thuillet, F., Lauretta, D. S., & Osiris-Rex Team 2019, Nature Geoscience. Craters, boulders and regolith of (101955) Bennu indicative of an old and dynamic surface

Rizk, B., Drouet d'Aubigny, C., Hergenrother, C. W., Bos, B. J., Golish, D. R., Malhotra, R., Lauretta, D. S., Butt, J., Patel, J., Fitzgibbon, M., May, C., Bierhaus, E. B., Freund, S., Fisher, M., Cambioni, S., Bennett, C. A., Balram-Knutson, S. S., Harshman, K., DellaGiustina, D. N., Antreasian, P., Leonard, J., Mink, R., Calloway, A., Bartels, A. E., Enos, H., Boynton, W. V., Nolan, M. C., & Moreau, M. 2019, Advances in Space Research. OSIRIS-REx low-velocity particles during outbound cruise

• An Interstellar Visitor May Have Changed the Course of 4 Solar System Planets, Study Suggests - January 19, 2025
• China Puts Moon Lander on the Far Side of the Moon - June 3, 2024
• Birthplace of red asteroid Kamo‘oalewa pinned to specific moon crater -- New Scientist, April 2024
• The Science of Leap Day: How It Works, Why We Do It, and When We Skip It - February 15, 2024
  UArizona Researchers Probe How a Piece of the Moon Became a Near-Earth Asteroid - October 23, 2023
• Pluto Orbits in Elegant Arrangement with the Giant Planets - May 24, 2023
• Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Heritage Month Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Renu Malhotra - April 2023
• How Pluto Walks a Tightrope Between a Stable and Chaotic Orbit - Space.com, April 2022
• QnAs with Renu Malhotra - PNAS, April 2022
• The Centuries-long Hunt for the Largest Hidden Object in the Solar System - WBUR, February 2022
• A Solution to the Faint-Sun Paradox Reveals a Narrow Window for Life - Quanta, January 2022
• Near-Earth Asteroid Might be a Lost Fragment of the Moon - UA News, November 2021
• A Missing Piece of the Moon May Be Following Earth Around the Sun - New York Times, November 2021
• Second Earth Trojan Asteroid Discovered - Sky & Telescope, February 2021
• UA Scientists and the Curious Case of the Warped Kuiper Belt - June 20, 2017