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A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...
Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...
The spacecraft captured the Red Planet and its enigmatic moons, Deimos and Phobos, marking its first deep-space imaging ...
It may be possible, though, to someday launch asteroid mining missions from Mars’ orbit, as suggested by a 2022 study in Planetary and Space Science. In this study, researchers claim that a station ...
For example, Asteroid 2024 MK made an unexpectedly close approach to Earth last year, just 13 days after its discovery. The encounter altered its orbit, bringing it closer to Earth than previously ...
These Phase 1 satellites, as OroraTech has designated them, will orbit at a steep 97-degree inclination, at an altitude of 340 miles (550 kilometers) above Earth, and are the humble beginning in a ...
The most crucial development for asteroid mining is that it has become far easier and cheaper than ever to get a payload into orbit, due to the privatisation of the space industry and its ...