It is clear that as demand for minerals surges due to green energy transition, asteroids could offer a virtually limitless ...
From space junk gel to hologram surgery, the team had lots of intriguing predictions. Which, if any, came true?
The main belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is so sparsely populated that spacecraft pass through as though ...
China's Tianwen-2 mission is an ambitious asteroid sample return and comet probe mission. Scheduled for launch in May 2025, Tianwen-2 aims to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid and study a ...
What if we nuked an asteroid? Since the mission’s success, scientists and space agencies have been building new types of robots to explore asteroids and moons. The extremely weak gravity and ...
Asteroid-detecting AI algorithms have already identified 27,000 new pieces of space debris, bringing the known number to 1.3 ...
China’s Tianwen-2 mission is an ambitious asteroid sample return and comet probe mission. Scheduled for launch in May 2025, Tianwen-2 aims to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid and study ...
NASA’s Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous-Shoemaker (NEAR) robotic mission and the Japanese Hayabusa ... and they are considered targets for future mining operations. Last month the United Arab ...