NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
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The future of asteroid mining: Missions, resources, and challenges explained
Among these, near-Earth asteroids and the Moon stand out as reachable bodies whose resources, whether metals, volatiles, or rare isotopes, could transform how we think about extraction and supply.
Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...
Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still ...
In the early 1980s, we regularly drove from San Diego to see my grandparents in Green Valley, Arizona, south of Tucson. Each visit included an excursion to Saguaro National Park, which flanks Tucson ...
Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still ...
Earth has one true moon, but there are also several asteroids known as quasi-moons that are in orbit with the sun. A newly discovered asteroid, 2025 PN7, is the seventh confirmed quasi-moon that ...
Before sunrise on October 1, 2025, a tiny asteroid labeled “2025 TF” skimmed above Antarctica at an altitude near 266 miles, roughly the same orbit used by the International Space Station. The closest ...
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