Metals from space: The rocky future of asteroid mining
As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims look at how close we really are extracting rare minerals ...
Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it — and others — will keep coming back
In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...
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Next month NASA's Lucy probe will visit an asteroid that's been waiting 150 million years to say hello
"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...
NASA Tracking Airplane-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
NASA is monitoring an asteroid approximately the size of an airplane as it prepares to pass by the Earth on March 21. The ...
NASA Image Reveals How Asteroid Transformed a Mountain
The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.
Scientists Followed 75 Meteorites and Mapped the Asteroid Belt’s Violent Origins
A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...
600 Million Years Ago, an Asteroid Strike Shook the Planet – And Its Effects May Still Linger
Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...
More or Less: Behind the Stats - What are the chances of an asteroid hitting earth in 2032? - BBC Sounds
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An Asteroid Won’t Destroy Life on Earth in 2032, but It Will Eventually
It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...
Remember that asteroid that isn't going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it
YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...
Scientists Found 52-Foot-Tall Underground Ripples From the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs
The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...