When it comes to saving Earth from a potential doomsday rock, knowing where to hit it and how it spins could make all the difference. Two new studies presented last month at the Europlanet Science ...

According to the team's results, mining undifferentiated asteroids (believed to be the progenitor of chondritic meteorites) ...

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When Joel Sercel thinks about the promise of extracting valuable resources from asteroids for use in space, he recalls other world-changing technologies that exploded when the time and circumstances ...

All 19 of the newly identified rapidly rotating asteroids are longer than an American football field, which is approximately ...

On its way to Didymos and Dimorphos, Hera has found time to test its cameras in preparation for the big moment. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space exploration—or even be mined for valuable resources. By analyzing rare meteorites ...

In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...