open image in gallery Image captured by Rover-1B, and provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows the surface of asteroid Ryugu ... according to South China Morning Post.

Asteroids colliding with Earth might seem farfetched, but the planetary threat is real. Just this year news broke of an ...

TransAstra, Karman+, and Asteroid Mining Corporationare a few of the companies ... while competitors like China and the UAE will launch asteroid-centric missions in 2025 and 2028 respectively.

China Wednesday launched its Tianwen-2 space mission to collect asteroid samples and conduct a main-belt comet study. A ...

Asteroid mining firms say mining for minerals on asteroids is just around the corner now, but not everyone is convinced (Credit: Getty Images) As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes ...

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and ... s sky to spot a feature shared with Earth.. An Unusual Asteroid: China’s robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from ...

Languages: English. The space agencies of the U.S. and China have both started planning for the potential impact of the so-called "city-killer" asteroid. The chances of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting ...

And so commercial asteroid mining seems like a stretch ... its hand due to the interest of potential competitors, including China-based Origin Space. However, there is no shortage of potential ...

BEIJING, May 18 (Reuters) - China is preparing to launch near-Earth asteroid probe Tianwen-2 at the end of May, state-run CCTV reported on Sunday, in the country's first mission to collect samples ...