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 ...
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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 ...
More or Less: Behind the Stats - What are the chances of an asteroid hitting earth in 2032? - BBC Sounds
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer threatens to hit Earth, but we can still hit it — for science!
The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...
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.
Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it — and others — will keep coming back
Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A giant 540-foot asteroid is speeding at 77,282 km/h towards Earth – close approach on 26 March
TN17, a massive space rock the size of the Taj Mahal, is racing towards Earth at 77,282 km/h and is classified as potentially ...
NASA warning: Massive asteroid twice the size of Taj Mahal approaching Earth at a speed of…, will it hit…
NASA is closely monitoring Asteroid 2014 TN17 due to its size and tremendous speed, as these kinds of space rocks are ...
NASA to launch asteroid hunting spacecraft in 2027
PASADENA, Calif. ( NewsNation) — As NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore — a Middle Tennessee native — and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space agency is gearing up for another project: a ...