At least eight asteroid missions are underway or coming soon, a recogntion of these objects’ scientific fascination—and their potential danger.
The U.S. sees a clear path to the use of moon and asteroid resources.
When it comes to mining space for water, the best target may not be the moon: Entrepreneurs’ richest options are likely to be asteroids that are larger and closer to Earth.
Could 16 Psyche make every person on Earth a billionaire? The space mining race is heating up.
Examining asteroids that come close to earth helps scientists understand our solar system.
Robotically surveying lunar craters in record time and mining resources in space could help NASA establish a sustained human presence at the Moon – part of the agency’s broader Moon to Mars exploration approach. Two mission concepts to explore these capabilities have been selected as the first-ever Phase III studies within the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program.
Space mining of water and precious metals has the potential to become a trillion-dollar industry in the coming years, experts say
The first study of its environmental impact suggests that extracting resources such as platinum from asteroids might be cleaner than doing so on Earth.
The agency just greenlit a robotic mission to the most metal-rich space rock in the solar system.
Engineers have come up with a plan to purposefully steer asteroids into Earth’s atmosphere and mine them for resources in orbit. What could possibly go wrong?
