Throughout its 4.5-billion-year history, Earth has been repeatedly pummeled by space rocks that have caused anything from an innocuous splash in the ocean to the annihilation of many species. When the next big impact will be, nobody knows. But the pressure is on to predict — ...
Japan’s space agency will establish a new organization dedicated to analyzing extraterrestrial materials.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency aims to give a name to the destination asteroid for the Hayabusa2 mission, which blasted off Wednesday, a senior agency official said. It might consider asking the public for a name, said Hitoshi Kuninaka, a professor and project manager at ...
Nobody is expected to start mining asteroids this decade, but the U.S. Congress is to hold hearings on the Asteroids Act, legislation that takes a simple line: If you extract a resource from an asteroid, it's yours.
Astronaut Soichi Noguchi joins some of his predecessors to ask world governments to protect humanity from asteroids on a collision course with Earth.
Two extraterrestrial objects intruded into the presumed order of our daily lives this month, one sideswiping the planet, the other impacting in Russia.
