According to the team's results, mining undifferentiated asteroids (believed to be the progenitor of chondritic meteorites) ...

Asteroid mining has moved from science fiction pitch decks into serious technical studies, but the gap between concept and ...

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

Based on their analysis, the team found that a type of asteroid rich in the minerals olivine and spinel could serve as an ...

New research shows C-type asteroids, making up 75% of all asteroids, could provide water and raw materials for space mining, ...

terbium, neodymium, and tantalum are used in such PCs and smartphones. However, the mining industry that produces rare metals not only causes air pollution and water pollution and destroys the ...

I confess: I’m a Star Trek nerd — and commodities enthusiast, too. Thus, asteroid mining should be my personal heaven. Recently, I watched with the excitement of a five-year old how a NASA space probe ...

Suarez said asteroids near Earth could catalyze the expansion of human activity in the solar system, arguing that they could open up the future for humans and other living things. On the other hand, ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare minerals from the many celestial bodies above us. Thirty years ago the seminal ...