Asteroid Mining Is the Path to a ‘Shitload of Money,’ Astroforge CEO Says
AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new ...
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Earth sure looks spooky in these 'hyperspectral' images from Europe's Hera asteroid probe
The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its gaze back at our planet ...
Tiny fragments of a 4-billion-year-old asteroid reveal its history
In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, ...
NASA's Plot to Capture an Asteroid and Save Humanity Almost Failed.
The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the ...
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Mysterious features on asteroid Vesta may be explained by saltwater
On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows ...
Hera asteroid mission's CubeSat passengers signal home
The two CubeSat passengers aboard ESA's Hera mission for planetary defense have exchanged their first signals with Earth, ...
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Cubesats on Europe's Hera asteroid mission phone home after Oct. 7 launch
Two European cubesats have communicated that they are a-ok as they hurtle toward a binary asteroid system to check out the ...
Apophis: a new European space mission could get up close with a large asteroid that’s set to brush by Earth
Apophis is 340 metres wide, about the same as the height of the Empire State Building. If it were to hit Earth, it would ...
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How Deep Did OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft's Arm 'Plunge' Into Asteroid Bennu?
NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...
NASA Devised a Wild Plot to Capture an Asteroid and Save Humanity. It Almost Failed
The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.
Asteroid Ryugu: The Space Rock That Could Explain Life on Earth
New research based on samples from asteroid Ryugu reveals that phosphorus-rich compounds could explain how Earth became ...