The UAE is developing a space craft to land on an asteroid belt beyond Mars. In the presence of Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and ...

The lander is part of the larger mission to the asteroid belt The lander, designed to study the asteroid Justitia, will be part of the larger EMA initiative, which spans a 13-year mission to ...

Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt, is far from a static rock drifting through space. Its complex geology and cryovolcanic activity hint at an active history stretching billions of years.

Dubai's Crown Prince on Thursday witnessed the signing of an agreement to develop the lander for the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA). The Technology Innovation Institute (TII ...

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the ... collect rocks and dirt from the potentially ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Many are pushing for a mission to collect rocks and dirt from the potentially waterlogged dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid belt. Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus also ...

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Typically, asteroids — like the one depicted in this artist’s concept — originate from the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, but a small population of near-Earth objects may ...

Bright deposits on the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt, contain sodium carbonate. The Cassini mission measured the same mineral in plumes on Saturn’s moon Enceladus.

the lander is part of the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt. The agreement supports the UAE Space Agency’s strategy to empower the private sector and startups and generate business ...