NASA has unveiled how its moon mining robot or In-Situ Resource Utilization Pilot Excavator (IPEx) will work on the lunar surface. This robotic system will support lunar digging, making it ...

NASA astronaut Drew Feustel just joined to map its strategy. Our small steps back to the moon today could build a rich new industry. There's lots of buzz about mining the moon. Satellites have ...

BRISBANE, June 28 (Reuters) - NASA is looking to develop resources ... that could lead to development and production," he told a mining conference in Brisbane. "We are literally just scratching ...

of the 2024 NASA Lunabotics Challenge Grand Prize. The club also took first place in mining and berm building, third place in education outreach and fourth place in autonomous operation. With that ...

Opposition to lithium mining in Nevada has emerged from an unexpected source: NASA. The space agency has requested the protection of an ancient lakebed in eastern Nevada, which is not only rich in ...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Environmentalists, ranchers and others have fought for years against lithium mining ventures in Nevada. Yet opposition to mining one particular desert tract for the silvery ...

Rich mineral deposits mean lithium mining companies have laid claim to large sections of it for resource extraction, through the purchase of federal leases. However, at NASA’s behest ...

Lindy Elkins-Tanton is leading a NASA mission to explore an asteroid ... With $10 quintillion in your wallet from asteroid mining, you could buy one of those cars for each person on Earth, and ...

W hen NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of this strange, sideways-rotating outer planet. Alongside the discovery ...