Asteroid 2024 PT5 is considered Earth's mini-moon and may be a key target for potential asteroid mining operations.
Earth is the only planet in our solar system with a single moon, making it a rare phenomenon for a planet of its kind.
Solar eclipses only occur at the New Moon phase of the lunar cycle (a series of eight unique phases of the moon's visibility) ...
NASA has estimated that the metals in these asteroids could be worth as much as $10 billion per person, and mining the richest ten asteroids could yield $1.5 trillion. However, the actual extraction ...
To this end, the company has developed the New Shepard and New Glenn rockets to send payloads to orbit, and aims to create super-heavy launch vehicles to reach the moon (the New Armstrong rocket) and ...