A car-sized asteroid, 2026 FM3, will pass closer than the Moon on March 25, 2026. Scientists confirm the flyby poses no ...
With scientists warning that Earth could be susceptible to thousands of undetected asteroids, Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue ...
On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of ...
TransAstra Corporation has laid out a plan to capture entire asteroids using inflatable bags, tow them closer to Earth, and ...
Astronomers have found a 710-metre-wide asteroid that spins once every 1.9 minutes, so fast that it should have spun itself ...
Asteroids with tiny moons may be quietly trading material across space. Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed faint streaks on the moon Dimorphos—evidence of slow “cosmic snowballs” drifting from ...
More space technology must be developed to prevent "city-killing asteroids" from hitting Earth, experts recommended at a recent science conference. While the risk is low, mid-size asteroids near Earth ...
Schematic of a proposed space mining setup that literally bags asteroids. Credit: TransAstra. The aerospace industry has a ...
A rock and a hard place ...
Asteroids would’ve supplied the raw materials, heat, and geologic plumbing to circulate prebiotic matter while also creating ...
Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to miss in the final images NASA’s DART spacecraft took before it slammed into ...
Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...