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Asteroids contain metals worth quintillions of dollars — but mining them won’t necessarily make your richer than Bezos or Musk
There are over a million asteroids that are being tracked by astronomers, and getting your hands on…
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An asteroid loaded with $10 quintillion worth of metals edges closer to US reach
NASA is preparing to launch a spacecraft to study an asteroid thought to be made up of $10 quintill…
Filip De Mott
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NASA has led 7 asteroid-impact simulations. Only once did experts figure out how to stop the space rock from hitting Earth.
Since 2013, NASA has been leading exercises in which experts confront a fictitious Earth-bound aste…
Aylin Woodward
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We'd need 5 to 10 years' notice to stop a killer asteroid heading for Earth
In a recent NASA simulation, scientists had six months to stop a hypothetical asteroid from hitting…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aylin W…
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Asteroid mining startup founded by ex-SpaceX and Virgin Orbit engineers books first test mission with SpaceX
AstroForge is scheduled to test its technology next year, using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to get int…
Tasmin Lockwood
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Paleontologists explain the most glaring errors in Adam Driver's new dinosaur film '65'
Adam Driver's new film "65" gets everything wrong from the title to the dinosaurs. Paleontologists …
Erin Heger
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There's A Huge Asteroid Approaching Earth - Here's How To Watch
Asteroid 2004 BL86 was first spotted in 2004. Because of its orbital path and size, the asteroid is…
Jessica Orwig
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There's A Really Big Asteroid Approaching Earth - Here's How To Watch
Asteroid 2004 BL86 was first spotted in 2004. Because of its orbital path and size, the asteroid is…
Jessica Orwig
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The Most Fascinating Astronomy Experiment Ever Will Be Conducted On A Mountaintop In Chile
With the world's largest digital camera, the telescope - which would sit atop a mountain peak in no…
Dina Spector
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Mini-moons like the one Earth just captured could be huge business opportunities
Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. W…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The billionaire CEO who made history with SpaceX describes facing the 'vacuum of death' in only a spacesuit
SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman said frequent space travel is "around the corner." How humans will …
Ana Altchek
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Underwater superyachts? A CEO is pitching fantastical ships that can go 800 feet down and stay submerged for weeks
The Migaloo M5 concept involves a 540-foot base-model submersible superyacht that could keep its we…
Mia Jankowicz
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How much do Big Tech companies pay their employees?
Insider analyzed data to figure out how much Big Tech firms like Google, Disney, and Hulu pay their…
Jordan Parker Erb
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Can anyone save the internet? Neal Agarwal is trying, one Hampster Dance at a time.
Being online today — on X/Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, anywhere — is boring and gloomy. One man is…
Brian Barrett
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NASA collaborates with SpinLaunch to test an innovative mass accelerator launch system — a slingshot to send payloads to space
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has joined hands to send a payload by using a …
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Jofra Archer likely to miss upcoming ODI series and IPL due to elbow injury
"Not quite sure yet (about his availability for the ODIs). We're going to wait until tonight an…
PTI
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322 new projects for 12,413 km road construction sanctioned under 'Bharatmala Pariyojana'
Till August, 2,921 km road has been constructed under the project. The Ministry of Road Trans…
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CBI takes over probe into Hathras gangrape case
The agency registered an FIR on Sunday morning under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections related to…
PTI
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Vedanta will continue on the stock exchange — delisting offer fails due to insufficient shares coming back
Anil Agarwal's Vedanta Limited announced on Saturday that its delisting offer had failed due to the…
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India's COVID-19 tally closes in on 7 million mark
The death toll due to COVID-19 climbed to 1,07,416 with 926 people succumbing to the disease in a s…