SpaceX’s IPO filing mentions asteroid mining as a potential long-term market as experts say cheaper launches and water resources could make space mining more realistic.

Spread the loveFor decades, the idea of mining asteroids for their precious resources felt like something ripped straight ...

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. Scientists are assessing the makeup of carbon-rich asteroids ...

Almost a year ago, the space science community watched as an asteroid entered Earth's orbit and circled above our heads for almost two months before departing. Scientists usually track such asteroids ...

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. ...

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

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When Joel Sercel thinks about the promise of extracting valuable resources from asteroids for use in space, he recalls other world-changing technologies that exploded when the time and circumstances ...

This February, California-based asteroid mining startup AstroForge embarked on what it hoped would be one of the most important launches in history: the first commercial deep space mission. Strapped ...

Using an instrument called HiPERCAM attached to the Gran Telescopio Canarias in La Palma, Spain, a team of researchers recently found that the near-Earth asteroid 2022 OB 5 is rotating once every ...

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O’Callaghan ...