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Even small asteroids lead complex lives. During its flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson last year, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft revealed the asteroid to be a wobbly…
NASA’s Lucy mission reveals an asteroid’s hidden history Next summer, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will start sidling up to several asteroids near Jupiter. On its w…
“I hope this introduces at least one new person to Elliott’s brilliant discography” Elliott Smith now has an asteroid named after him, over two decades since …
SpaceX has identified asteroid mining as a potential future opportunity.
To truly understand what an asteroid is made of, we need to send a probe to it. Remote sensing from ground-based telescopes, or even orbiting observatories, ca…
Written by Motley Fool YouTube for The Motley Fool -> Asteroid mining is unlikely to become a meaningful source of Earth-bound minerals for decades, if ever. …
China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft just arrived at a mysterious ‘quasi-moon’ of Earth The Tianwen-2 spacecraft is slowly closing in on the near-Earth asteroid Kamo‘…
Drill cores at the impact site of the Chicxulub asteroid show evidence that, alongside widespread destruction, the collision created a vast underground ecosyst…
Dino-killing asteroid may have sparked millions of years of hydrothermal life When asteroids slam into Earth, they can create hydrothermal vent systems By Me…
The strength of gravity is different on every body in the solar system. Whether it's the crushing weight of Jupiter or the minuscule pull of a small asteroid, …
China's Tianwen-2 sample-return mission is well on its way to its target, an asteroid called Kamo'oalewa. The spacecraft left Earth in May 2025 and should retu…
