SpaceX’s IPO filing mentions asteroid mining as a potential long-term market as experts say cheaper launches and water ...

The solar system is far more richly endowed by resources than everyday experience might suggest. You must have heard that distant gas giants rain diamonds. Water bodies light-years away hold volumes ...

Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbor valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a ...

This is a colored view of the C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu, seen by the ONC-T camera on board of Hayabusa2. Source – ISAS/JAXA, CC SA 4.0. Scientists are assessing the makeup of carbon-rich asteroids ...

The scientific mission to 16 Psyche NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is currently traveling toward a large metal rich asteroid ...

Kya karenge itni dhanrashi ka? The world is psyched about NASA’s Psyche mission and why not when you have an asteroid with a ...

Asteroid mining seems simple in theory. A spacecraft flies up to a giant rock in space, scoops out some material, and either processes it on site or returns it back to a huge central processing ...

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small asteroids actually made of, in measurable detail? Researchers at the Institute ...

When humans choose to venture out farther into space, they may consider bringing the tiniest of creatures along for the ride. A recent experiment found that microbes’ ability to extract precious ...

Using an instrument called HiPERCAM attached to the Gran Telescopio Canarias in La Palma, Spain, a team of researchers recently found that the near-Earth asteroid 2022 OB 5 is rotating once every ...

A new generation of rockets aims to unlock new business models in space, including the science fiction dream of extracting resources from asteroids. Researchers are taking a closer look at asteroids ...