According to the team's results, mining undifferentiated asteroids (believed to be the progenitor of chondritic meteorites) ...
Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...
Investors and dreamers like to picture asteroids as glittering vaults of gold and platinum, a $700 quintillion jackpot ...
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 ...
This is a colored view of the C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu, seen by the ONC-T camera on board of Hayabusa2. Source - ISAS/JAXA, CC SA 4.0. This is a colored view of the C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu, ...
Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space exploration—or even be mined for valuable resources. By analyzing rare meteorites ...