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'The law is way behind the time': Mining asteroids and the moon remains a huge legal gray areaCan we mine the moon and asteroids? NASA wants to make it happen, but it's still a huge legal gray area, experts say.
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There's an asteroid out there worth $100,000 quadrillion. Why haven't we mined it?While asteroids are rich sources of precious and valuable materials, scientists still haven't fully committed to mining them.
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Water detected on the surface of an asteroid for the 1st time everScientists detected water molecules on the surface of two asteroids for the first time ever. The team made the discovery using data from NASA's now-retired SOFIA airborne observatory.
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Meteor that exploded over Germany confirmed to be rare 'aubrite' as old as the solar system itselfA meteor that exploded over Germany on Jan. 21 was confirmed to be a rare aubrite, a type of asteroid as old as the solar system.
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Asteroid Bennu may be 'a fragment of an ancient ocean world', 1st sample analysis suggestsScientists are working hard to analyze samples of the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu, with early results suggesting it may even be a chunk of an ancient water world.
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Watch 'city killer' asteroid fly by Earth today on its closest approach for centuries (Feb. 2)A "potentially hazardous" space rock the size of a football stadium is about to reach its closest point to our planet for more than 100 years, and it won't get this close to us again for centuries more.
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The Geminid meteors may be 10 times older than we thought, simulations of oddball asteroid Phaethon suggestThe comet-like asteroid Phaethon likely lobbed thousands of rocky fragments toward Earth while rapidly spinning around the sun 18,000 years ago, new research suggests ― and it may fling some more soon.
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'This might be the seeds of life': Organic matter found on asteroid Ryugu could explain where life on Earth came fromOrganic matter found in samples of asteroid Ryugu suggests that ancient comets may be responsible for bringing the 'seeds of life' to Earth.
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Airplane-size asteroid will have 'very close encounter' with Earth on Saturday — and you can watch it happenAsteroid 2024 BJ, which astronomers detected earlier this month, will zoom within 220,000 miles of Earth tomorrow, or closer to us than the average distance to the moon.
