A California company is designing a spacecraft that’s set to launch in April 2028 with a mission to intercept an asteroid as ...
The people who toiled night and day to put astronauts on the moon during Apollo are thrilled that NASA is finally going back.
Asteroid mining is often seen as the future of unlimited resources. But bringing massive amounts of rare materials back to Earth could have consequences no one fully understands. It could disrupt ...
TransAstra Corporation has laid out a plan to capture entire asteroids using inflatable bags, tow them closer to Earth, and ...
Two landers from a private US company will be part of an armada to asteroid Apophis when it flies past Earth in 2029. Apophis, about 400 metres across, was discovered in 2004. Initial calculations ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has spotted the fastest-rotating large asteroid ever seen. Despite measuring more than half a kilometre across, this asteroid spins about once every 1.9 minutes ...
TransAstra has developed a plan to bag an asteroid and move it to a stable near-Earth orbit for processing. Reading time 2 minutes There are roughly 250 small, near-Earth asteroids teeming with ...
TransAstra developed the Capture Bag to grab asteroids or defunct satellites. This render shows a spacecraft powered by TransAstra's Omnivore Solar Thermal Propulsion moving the asteroid to a ...
Asteroid mining technology is transforming how we think about space exploration and resource acquisition. By targeting near-Earth objects rich in platinum-group metals and water, these innovations aim ...
When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its parent asteroid, Didymos, and the two objects' orbit around the sun, according ...
All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Mineral Mining Simulator Turns raw rock into valuable minerals and jewelry grade gemstones through a hands on production chain. Mine ore, crush it into ...
Asteroid mining companies are finally getting off the ground, and that is raising some concerns about the impact those activities will have on the space environment. A new paper published in Acta ...