The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If…
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The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will set off from Cape Canaveral on 7 October on a SpaceX Falcon 9…
The cars, cellphones, computers and televisions that people in the U.S. use every day require metals like copper, cobalt and…
It’s unlikely to be a bad omen, but NASA’s mission Psyche is currently due to launch on Friday 13 October.…
After a journey of billions of kilometres, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has culminated in a small black capsule blazing through the sky before…
NASA, if your memory is good enough, sent a spacecraft to tangle with an asteroid late last year. The DART…
One of the things you don’t worry about nearly enough is the potential for an asteroid strike on planet Earth.…
When you hear that there’s an object in space that shouldn’t be there, the immediate reaction might be panic. But…
What is your idea of an asteroid? Many people think of them as potato-shaped, inert and perhaps rather dull, pock-marked…