Two laws on opposite sides of the Atlantic have given private companies legal cover to extract resources from asteroids, but peer-reviewed economic models and NASA’s own research suggest the path from ...

There's growing debate about the future of asteroid mining, as technology keeps making new advancements. These new developments have prompted concerns about how this process can be regulated, as it ...

In Madison and nearby southeast Missouri counties, William Jud, a Fredericktown geologist, may have identified a buried ...

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 ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson once stated that the world's first trillionaire will be the person who takes up intergalactic mining. Indeed, according to some calculations, a single asteroid could earn you ...

Asteroid mining companies are finally getting off the ground, and that is raising some concerns about the impact those activities will have on the space environment. A new paper published in Acta ...