Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks ...
Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.
The worldwide tech leading Dutch firm, cosine, is making a big impact in space exploration. The company is playing a key role in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission by providing a ...
YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...
The company’s Odin spacecraft was launched successfully on Feb. 26, but it soon encountered huge communication difficulties, ...
It is known as a near-Earth asteroid, meaning its orbit presents a danger to Earth, according to NASA. It is between 130 and 300 feet wide and has a fluctuating chance of impacting the planet on ...
The Lunar Trailblazer, one of NASA's Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration ... As for AstroForge's Odin asteroid-mining scout, unfortunately, like the Lunar Trailblazer, Odin has also ...
A massive asteroid is heading towards Earth at high speed. NASA has warned about the 460-foot asteroid 535844 (2015 BY310), which is set to pass closely. The asteroid, travelling at an incredible ...
It was supposed to be the start of asteroid mining. But it looks like the mission has failed. AstroForge has lost contact with Odin. "Right now, Odin is still out there, and we're still trying to ...
And then it was 1.2%! Which soon jumped up to 3.1%, the highest NASA has ever recorded for a space object of its size. But what's an asteroid, I hear you ask? Let me show you. Well, our solar ...
The world's first private spaceraft built to visit an asteroid is slowly tumbling in space and the outlook is dire. "I think we all know the hope is fading as we continue the mission," AstroForge ...
A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining. The probe, called Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket alongside ...