Using an instrument called HiPERCAM, is attached to the Gran Telescopio Canarias in La Palma, Spain, a team of researchers ...
Space mining has long carried the promise of a new gold rush — metallic asteroids packed with precious metals, orbiting close enough to reach without burning through a spacecraft’s entire fuel supply.
A small asteroid named 2022 OB5 has revealed an unexpected obstacle for asteroid miners: it rotates once every 1.542 minutes, making it one of the fastest-spinning small asteroids ever measured.