According to the team's results, mining undifferentiated asteroids (believed to be the progenitor of chondritic meteorites) ...

Based on their analysis, the team found that a type of asteroid rich in the minerals olivine and spinel could serve as an ...

New research shows C-type asteroids, making up 75% of all asteroids, could provide water and raw materials for space mining, ...

Investors and dreamers like to picture asteroids as glittering vaults of gold and platinum, a $700 quintillion jackpot ...

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

Last year delivered doses of drama and excitement in the space business, with a record number of launches, breathtaking ...

ExLabs has announced its partnership with Japan's Chiba Institute of Technology (ChibaTech) and its Planetary Exploration ...

In the aftermath of the giant asteroid that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula about 66 million years ago, approximately 75% ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

It's been named Cloud-9, and it's a mysterious object about 14.3 million light-years away, near the spiral galaxy M94, which ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...