Impacts on asteroids produce regolith, erase small craters Impact cratering both produces new regolith and causes seismic events that can degrade and erase small craters on the surface of asteroids, a paper by Planetary Science […]
Asteroid’s features to be named after mythical birds Working with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team, the International Astronomical Union’s Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) approved the theme “birds and bird-like creatures in mythology” for naming […]
Can bacteria help people to mine asteroids? Luis Zea is investigating the possibility of mining metals from asteroids in space using an unlikely agent: bacteria. It may sound like science fiction, but so-called biomining is […]
Iron volcanoes may have erupted on metal asteroids Metallic asteroids are thought to have started out as blobs of molten iron floating in space. As if that’s not strange enough, scientists now think that as […]
Asteroids are stronger, harder to destroy than previously thought A popular theme in the movies is that of an incoming asteroid that could extinguish life on the planet, and our heroes are launched into space […]
Space telescope detects water in a number of asteroids Using the infrared satellite AKARI, a Japanese research team has detected the existence of water in the form of hydrated minerals in a number of asteroids […]