Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

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

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

A new generation of rockets aims to unlock new business models in space, including the science fiction dream of extracting resources from asteroids. Researchers are taking a closer look at asteroids ...

A new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) explores the long-debated potential of ...

The Lyrid meteor shower occurs between April 16-25 every year and will next peak in the early hours of April 22, 2026.

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Asteroid impacts with global consequences are vastly rarer, especially compared to the frequency with which they appear in ...

Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

Analysis of C type asteroid samples supports use as sources of metals and primordial material and helps target missions and resource technology. (Nanowerk News) Much remains to be known about the ...

This is a colored view of the C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu, seen by the ONC-T camera on board of Hayabusa2. Source - ISAS/JAXA, CC SA 4.0. This is a colored view of the C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu, ...