"Odin's role is to gather critical imagery of the target asteroid, preparing the way for our next mission, Vestri, which will ...

The primary goal, he said, is to make sure Odin turns on and communicates back to Earth. Mission success, Gialich told his ...

It was initially believed the asteroid, first detected on December 27, had about a 1 percent chance of colliding with Earth, but by Thursday, that chance had risen to 2.3 percent. On Wednesday, NASA ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

Space mining company AstroForge has revealed the destination of its next asteroid prospecting mission and has signed a launch contract with Stoke Space.

Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of ...

The asteroid mining startup is to launch Odin mounted underneath Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 lunar lander mission, said Matthew Gialich, CEO and... Based in the Seattle area, Garrett covers the ...

Outpost will be ready to provide non-fiery ones. Asteroid mining, tick. Factories in space, tick. Want to stay on a private space station? Jed McCaleb, a fintech billionaire, has hired Max Haot ...

Up until August 2024, the WISE spacecraft was one such observatory. The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet tracking after its original mission ended. In the next few years ...

Learn about your mission, objectives, and take a look at the world of Astronomics in this trailer for the game where top-down ...

A U.S. asteroid-mining company has announced the target space rock for its upcoming test mission. Odin will separate shortly after the Falcon 9 upper stage fires its engines to head for the moon.

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