There are plenty of upsides to the pursuit of asteroid mining, said Paul Stimers, an attorney and space policy expert with Holland & Knight. There are, however, some key questions hanging over the ...
AstroForge's Odin asteroid probe, the box-shaped spaceraft at center right, is seen after launch beneath the private ...
The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O ...
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
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.
YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...
The company’s Odin spacecraft was launched successfully on Feb. 26, but it soon encountered huge communication difficulties, ...
Chinese scientists have developed a six-legged "space mining robot" inspired by insects, which may be used for prospecting and mining on the moon or asteroids in the future, Xinhua News reported ...
Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...
NANJING -- A team of Chinese scientists has created a six-legged "space mining robot" inspired by insects, which could be ...