asteroidskerogenresilient foodspace foodTo deeply explore the solar system, it will be necessary to become less reliant on the resupply tether to Earth. An approach explored in this study is to convert hydrocarbons in asteroids to human edible food. After comparing the experimental pyrolysis ...
An asteroid -- and there are lots of them out there. With humor and great visuals, Phil Plait shows us all the ways asteroids can kill us (yipes), and what we must do to avoid them. science technology astronomy space dinosaurs TEDx asteroid...
And I’m going to use all the resources at my disposal. In fact there’s a great story I tell in one of my books about Peter Diamandis, who is the founder of the X Prize and Singularity University, he’s a really big thinker, he’s out there thinking about how to mine asteroids....
The legal challenge is every bit as thorny. Right now, we’re at the earliest stages for ruling who has the right to mine certain asteroids. The United Nations’ 1967 Outer Space Treaty has been signed by 106 countries — but this doesn’t address the topic in any great detail. In the...
Yesterday, NASA launched its OSIRIS-REx mission to visit asteroid Bennu. Once there, its spacecraft will take a sample of the asteroid and return the material to Earth. In this edition of Mobile Astronomy, we'll focus on asteroids, and how you can see one in a backyard telescope with the...
However, some deep-sky objects can be seen in small telescopes like mine. Also, light pollution filters may help improve the view of some of these objects. Multiple Stars Many stars are actually arrangements of two or more stars that orbit each other. For example, if you look at Mizar (...
However, some deep-sky objects can be seen in small telescopes like mine. Also, light pollution filters may help improve the view of some of these objects. Multiple Stars Many stars are actually arrangements of two or more stars that orbit each other. For example, if you look at Mizar (...
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Moon conservation areas were formed, one was the Sea of Tranquility Lunar Preserve. Cases were made that if we were going to mine for resources it may be better to do so on the Moon and to conserve as much "living Earth" as possible. ...
Interest in asteroids – both from companies who are looking to mine them and from space agencies looking to better understand their composition – is skyrocketing. This artist's concept depicts the 144-mile-wide (232-kilometer-wide) asteroid Psyche, which lies in the main asteroid belt between...