Sixty six million years ago, a colossal asteroid crashed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It triggered the ...

A second company has jumped into what the founders hope will be a lucrative emerging market, prospecting for raw materials among near-Earth asteroids using fleets of low-cost spacecraft.

Laser Photonics' laser systems offer professionals in the mining industry a user-friendly, ethical, cost-effective and time-efficient solution for maintaining the heavy equipment used during the ...

Laser ablation is not a new technique, according to MIT Technology Review. But in the past, scientists have assumed it would need to be performed using a massive laser powered by nuclear energy.

An early-stage mission concept could see laser-driven light-sail probes visit the notorious asteroid Apophis during its 2029 close flyby of Earth. Skip to main content.