Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft just bombed an asteroid
5 April 2019
The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has shot an explosive projectile at the asteroid Ryugu to release dust and collect a sample
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Spacecraft reveal the mysteries of the solar system's space rocks
27 March 2019
Three spacecraft have been gathering a treasure trove of information about the solar system's space rocks, helping us understand how Earth and the other planets formed
Asteroid Bennu is spewing out dust and rocks to create its own moons
19 March 2019
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has found that Bennu is an active asteroid and is covered in large rocks that will make grabbing a sample more difficult
Asteroid Ryugu is so dry we may have to rethink how Earth got water
19 March 2019
The first results from Japan’s Hayabusa-2 mission show that the asteroid Ryugu is surprisingly dry, which may have implications for how life began on Earth
Huge meteor explosion over Earth last year went unnoticed until now
15 March 2019
The second-largest meteor to hit Earth in the past century exploded over the ocean last December, but nobody was around to see it
Earth may be partly made of rocks from elsewhere in the galaxy
14 March 2019
We’ve only seen one interstellar object, a rock called ‘Oumuamua that passed by in 2017, but they may be crucial to speeding up the planet-building process
Space exploration needs minnows as much as superpowers
27 February 2019
In the new era of missions beyond Earth, there is plenty of room for the little guy to shine alongside the might of the US and China
Japan's Hayabusa 2 may finally kick-start the asteroid mining era
20 February 2019
The turn of the decade saw a huge surge of interest in asteroid mining, but now this would-be industry has flopped. Can a tiny Japanese probe revive it?
Interstellar ‘Oumuamua might be a fractal snowflake not an alien probe
15 February 2019
The interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua might be an alien spaceship, at least according to one prominent researcher, but now there is a much more reasonable explanation
Here's how we could turn an asteroid into a space station
4 February 2019
Building a space station inside a rotating asteroid would make it easier to mine precious resources - but it might not happen for decades
