16 January 2022
Asteroids: how love, fear and greed will determine our future in space
... plans have been made for the future of asteroid mining, asteroids have moved beyond the jokes into the realm ... subtitle of this book references the author’s “scientific love” for asteroids as a proxy for origin-of-life investigations, the “fear” of ...
06 December 2020
Hayabusa2 capsule containing asteroid samples lands on Earth
... anxious to perform the analysis as the presence of gasses within the sample container would indicate that the asteroid samples were successfully collected. Scientists hope primordial material believed to be contained in the samples will help further...
14 January 2019
New steam-powered asteroid hopper that could run 'forever'
...to location, say like out in space, from asteroid to asteroid for example. But that is exactly what scientists from... Ceres, Europa, Titan, Pluto, the poles of Mercury, asteroids — anywhere there is water and sufficiently low gravity,” explained ...
21 October 2020
OSIRIS-REx successfully touches asteroid Bennu
...) success for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft which yesterday unfurled its robotic arm, and briefly touched asteroid Bennu to collect dust and pebbles from it’s surface. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith...
16 December 2020
Hayabusa2 delivers first-ever gas sample from an asteroid
...container inside the re-entry capsule is also from the Ryugu asteroid. Last week, on a remote test range in the...year after it had blasted craters on the surface of the Ryugu asteroid to dislodge material. “A large number of particles are confirmed to ...
08 April 2019
Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System
... of the solar system, such as comets and asteroids, were little more than blurry images on photographic ... begins with the formation of the solar system, placing comets and asteroids in the context of the Earth-Moon system and considering them both...
