While the technology still needs significant work, a new analysis of meteorites points to valuable targets in the solar ...

Asteroid mining companies are finally getting off the ground, and that is raising some concerns about the impact those activities will have on the space environment. A new paper published in Acta ...

Investors and dreamers like to picture asteroids as glittering vaults of gold and platinum, a $700 quintillion jackpot waiting to be claimed. The real prize is more prosaic and far more strategic: the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meteorite chemistry shows which primitive asteroids may hold usable metals or water, and why most space mining remains difficult. ...

A newly unveiled company with some high-profile backers — including filmmaker James Cameron and Google co-founder Larry Page — has announced plans to mine near-Earth asteroids for resources such as ...

In Madison and nearby southeast Missouri counties, William Jud, a Fredericktown geologist, may have identified a buried ...

In October 2023, NASA launched a mission toward 16 Psyche, a massive gold and metal-rich asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Estimated to hold precious metals worth around $100,000 quadrillion ...

An experiment on board the ISS tested the use of microorganisms to mine asteroids in the microgravity environment.

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 ...