Asteroid mining wouldn’t just change space exploration—it would reshape life on Earth. A sudden influx of metals and ...
Astronomers are getting prepared for the chance to see "the most energetic lunar impact event ever recorded in human history" ...
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HEFEI, China, Sept. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Chinese scientists revealed their first comprehensive plan for the near-Earth asteroid defense system at a space exploration conference held on Friday, ...
Space mining tech is advancing as robotic systems make asteroid exploration and resource analysis increasingly viable. Autonomous rovers now assess asteroid composition using laser-based spectroscopy, ...
The asteroid is of a similar size as the one that exploded over Chelyabinsk in 2013. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has identified asteroid 2025 MN45, a 710-meter object spinning at an unprecedented rate of once every 1.88 minutes. This discovery challenges existing models of asteroid ...
On December 6, 2020, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft dropped off pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu in the Australian outback, becoming the world’s second asteroid sample return mission, after the first ...
The tiny asteroid 1998 KY26 (center) is observed here by the Gemini South telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and ...
The spacecraft, bound for a metallic asteroid, turned to snap a striking image of our home planet from 180 million miles away. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
University-Led Payloads to Land on Asteroid Apophis as Part of the World's First Commercial Deep-Space Rideshare Mission Under the leadership of planetary scientist and PERC Director, Dr. Tomoko Arai, ...