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Near earth asteroid mining hinges on type. Bennu and Ryugu samples back water-rich C-types, while no M-type has been sampled.

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Readers of a certain age will remember a golden era of asteroid films, capped by two with very different endings. "Deep Impact" drove home the devastating consequences of letting a large piece of rock ...

What shape is an asteroid? For (44) Nysa, the honest answer until now has been that nobody knew. It is one of the brightest and largest E-type asteroids in the main belt, a class with a surface rich ...

That’s one way to stop the a-rock-alypse. Chinese scientists have devised an unorthodox solution to stop a potential Doomsday asteroid from destroying Earth — by nuking the space-rock with a force ...

Astronomers have previously found a number of asteroids that look like two rocky bodies collided and stuck together. These binary asteroids include Donaldjohanson and Torifune. But Nysa – named after ...

Researchers identified the Chicxulub impactor as an exceptionally rare type of asteroid that wouldn't have triggered a mass extinction in the way scientists previously thought. Reading time 3 minutes ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Named after the ancient Egyptian god of chaos, Apophis will ...

As the United States of America celebrated its 250th birthday on terra firma with fireworks displays this weekend, two Asian countries made some splashes of their own farther from Earth. On Sunday, an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. SpaceX’s IPO filing mentions asteroid mining as a potential ...

NEW YORK — A large asteroid will zip past Earth this weekend, but don’t worry: It poses no danger. The space rock — 1997 NC1 — makes its closest approach Saturday morning, coming within 1.6 million ...