Asteroid Belt

Fluids may have flowed within the parent body of the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu more than one billion years after it formed, according to research published in Nature.

A new Swinburne research paper delves into the ethical, legal and social issues involved in asteroid mining and planetary defence. It highlights the need for a framework or governing body to be established to protect civilisation.

This concludes more than 10 years of its planetary defense mission

The asteroid moon Dimorphos may have been reshaped after NASA smashed the DART spacecraft into it back in 2022, according to international scientists.