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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The commercialization of asteroid mining is still a ways off, but in October 2023, NASA launched a scientific mission to explore the metal-rich asteroid Psyche. The main goal of the mission is ...

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 ...

At the request of NASA, U.S. land managers have withdrawn about 36 square miles of federal land otherwise open to mineral exploration and mining at the site 250 miles northeast of Las Vegas.