Asteroids

by Joe McCormick | Mar 25, 2016

How did the novella The Little Prince inspire a planetary defense strategy? How does NASA plan to put an asteroid in lunar orbit? And can we stop a catastrophic event?

by Joe McCormick | Mar 18, 2015

What is NASA's Dawn mission all about? What are they learning from Vesta and Ceres? And could Ceres have habitable oceans?

by Joe McCormick | Sep 5, 2014

by Joe McCormick | Oct 11, 2013

How will owning property in space work? What does the 1967 space treaty say? What are some proposed solutions to the problem?

by Lauren Vogelbaum | Aug 19, 2013

NASA actually maintains a list of potential future Earth impact events. Get more weird asteroid info in Lauren's Fw:Thinking blog post.

by Joe McCormick | Aug 16, 2013

What's our current plan should an asteroid come hurtling toward Earth? Is the Armageddon scenario feasible? What are alternatives?

by Jonathan Strickland | Aug 14, 2013

Private companies have announced plans for asteroid mining. Read about the outlook for asteroid mining in this Fw:Thinking blog post.

by Joe McCormick | Mar 22, 2013

Mining asteroids for water and metals could be very profitable. Learn about asteroid mining in this blog post from Fw:Thinking.