Asteroids, moons and other celestial bodies contain raw materials. There are technical, legal and ethical challenges.

The trajectories of objects often feature anomalies that can be useful in discovering new physics.” These are the words of Yu-Dai Tsai, first author of a recent paper published in Nature ...

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...

However, smaller asteroids, especially those 100 meters or less in size, can still cause significant damage. For example, the 2013 Chelyabinsk event involved a 20-meter asteroid that exploded in the ...

For example, in the 1980s, Russia was famously required to pay Canada recompense for crashing into them. However, less than 25% of this fine has been paid to date… So, while asteroids are splashy and ...

Mars, for example, is the closest celestial body to ... To achieve this, the researcher suggests bombarding it with asteroids from the far reaches of the solar system. Mars is a desert planet ...

Asteroids offer yet another layer of nuance ... The balm and the relief, can be found in the polarity point of that placement. For example, if your Chiron is in Scorpio, look to Taurus for ...

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near ... does something become interesting? For example, on average in any given year, an object ...

While this is just the latest example of the company that currently owns the rights to the Atari name looking to cash in on nostalgic gamers, it comes at a time when Asteroids is celebrating its ...

Astronomers have spotted seven new examples of a cosmic phenomenon known ... celestial objects across our solar system that resemble asteroids but zip through space like comets, albeit without ...

The potential risk posed by these asteroids is not hypothetical. There have been instances when their collision has led to devastating consequences. Among the highly popular examples is the ...

Compared to larger asteroids, decameter asteroids have less ... Burdanov adds in the statement. “It’s a good example of what we can do as a field when we look at the data differently.