Asteroid prospecting company AstroForge has been awarded the first-ever commercial license for operating and communicating with a spacecraft in deep space, ahead of its Odin mission that's set to ...
The vast majority are too small to do any damage, but the risk of a larger asteroid (or comet) wiping out an underprepared city is one that space agencies around the world are taking seriously.
"They essentially hold on to the side of the asteroid for dear life as it screams through the solar system." Mitch Hunter-Scullion is describing a six-legged robot called Scar-e, the Space Capable ...