WATCH LIVE: Bus-sized asteroid to miss Earth on a Monday flyby, but not by much

A distance of 56,000 miles may sound like a lot but it’s just a whisker on the scale of space encounters and it’s how close a ...

Asteroid 2022 OB5 spins too fast for current prospectors, highlighting the divide between 'accessible' and 'exploitable'

Asteroid mining seems simple in theory. A spacecraft flies up to a giant rock in space, scoops out some material, and either ...
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NASA's Psyche probe takes brand-new images of Mars on way to (possibly) precious asteroid

NASA's asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft flew by Mars for a gravity assist on the way to its final target. And it took some ...
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Microbes extract metals from meteorites in space experiment

The study, led by researchers from Cornell University and the University of Edinburgh, tested whether microorganisms could ...

Newly discovered asteroid to pass closer to Earth than the moon on Monday

A newly discovered asteroid estimated to be about 62 feet wide will zoom near Earth on Monday, though it is not expected to ...
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Astronomers locate asteroid moving so fast it challenges space mining efforts

A small asteroid named 2022 OB5 has revealed an unexpected obstacle for asteroid miners: it rotates once every 1.542 minutes, ...
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Meteorite hunters scour Ohio for fragments of 7-ton space rock that crashed into Earth

Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to collect fragments of an estimated 7-ton (6,350 kilograms) space rock that crashed into Earth this week after a dazzling ...