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 ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

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

One meteorite may hold the answers space agencies have been chasing, answers that could unlock mining in deep space.

Despite the Space Policy of 2023, redefining ISRO's role and encouraging it to step away from commercial launches, the space ...

Space mining tech and robotic prospecting are unlocking extraterrestrial resources, reshaping future energy, manufacturing, and off-world economies.

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

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s soaring towards Earth at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Estimated to measure ...