"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast and a member of one of Nasa's sky surveys that searches and tracks ...

It was a "C-type asteroid" — which are the dark, carbon-rich leftovers of the outer solar system — and the impact scattered ...

Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...