As concerns over Earth’s limited resources continue to grow, some entrepreneurs are eagerly looking beyond our planet to establish the next big business venture: asteroid mining. The prospect of ...

A colossal asteroid, known as 2014 TN17, is set to make a chillingly close pass by Earth this week, marking the nearest approach in over 100 years. This massive space rock, measuring an estimated ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

Remember the potential "city killer" asteroid we were all freaking out about, 2024 YR4? Initially predicted with a small but unsettling chance of hitting our planet seven years from now ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — Scientists are designing a satellite and instruments capable of detecting space debris as small as 1 centimeter, less than one-half inch. Debris that small, which cannot ...

Through thermodynamic calculations, the authors suggest a potentially large-scale, high-energy impact event with an S-rich asteroid or involving lunar S-rich mantle-core excavation to be ...

Geochemistry is the study of the chemical composition of the Earth and other planets, and the chemical processes that affect them. As the early Earth solidified, gravitational segregation of dense ...

Asteroid 2014 TN17 meets both these specifications set by Nasa, which constantly tracks space objects using powerful ground-based and space telescopes. Hypothetically, if 2014 TN17 were to impact our ...