space mining

Recent experiments aboard the International Space Station have shown that some microbes can harvest valuable rare-ea…

If Deep Space Industries has its way, there’ll be a small robotic lander on a nearby asteroid in just three years.…

In a world first, a US-based company has been granted permission to travel beyond Earth’s orbit into deep space.…

It’s home to just a half-million people, but Luxembourg is not thinking small when it comes to the future. Earlier…

Many components in your phones and batteries are made with “rare Earth metals.” You know why they call them that?…

There’s gold in them thar’ space rocks, say the miners of the future. There’s also platinum, rare earth elements,…

There is gold out there on asteroids. Silver and platinum and titanium, too. And if we’re seriously going to mine…

When it's time to colonize space, we will need space miners to provide with the minerals and gases needed to build…

The idea of mining nearby asteroids for resources we could use on Earth is fast becoming a possibility—and the…

Asteroid-mining company Deep Space Industries has just announced plans to launch a fleet of "FireFly" spacecraft as…

It's hard to suppress your little-kid joy when a news story drops like the prospect of asteroid mining. Clearly…