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NASA targets a giant metal asteroid - worth trillions?

NASA is preparing a mission to one of the strangest objects ever discovered—a 226 km wide asteroid made largely of metal.

There’s a reason we don’t have birds the size of elephants: the mysterious story of how dinosaurs evolved – expert Q&A

Exactly how did birds evolve from dinosaurs? It’s a mystery that has been with us for more than 150 years, and ...

Mining the solar system to build a new world

I watched Armageddon again fairly recently with Bruce Willis, oil drillers in space and an asteroid the size of Texas bearing ...