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An artist's impression of Psyche

NASA’s deep-space mission to a $10 quintillion all-metal world

15 August 2018

The unique metal asteroid Psyche may be a space miner's fantasy – but there are better reasons to want to visit it, says mission leader Lindy Elkins-Tanton
Old rock

Asteroid strike may have forged the oldest rocks ever found on Earth

13 August 2018

The oldest rocks ever found are over four billion years old and we don’t know how they formed – but a massive asteroid bombardment may be responsible

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