Two laws on opposite sides of the Atlantic have given private companies legal cover to extract resources from asteroids, but peer-reviewed economic models and NASA’s own research suggest the path from ...

Asteroid mining has shifted from science fiction to business plan, with serious money and engineering talent now chasing metals and water locked inside near‑Earth rocks. The promise is simple but ...

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. ...

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

The main goal of a newly announced private space telescope may be protecting Earth, but the instrument could also help out prospective asteroid miners, its builders say. The nonprofit B612 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The next frontier for precious minerals could be much closer to home than the asteroid belt out past the orbit of Mars. A new ...

Several companies are already developing solutions to mine asteroids in space, as they contain many useful elements, such as water and gold.

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 ...

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

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 ...