As a lone engineer find, extract, move and utilize the abundant resources of a massive asteroid to build for ... base faster and more efficient. All mining and logistics happen while utilizing ...

After a Winklevoss encounter highlights Elon Musk’s space mining dreams, maybe we should remind ourselves of the righ... After a Winklevoss encounter highlights Elon Musk’s space mining dreams ...

For now, commercial asteroid mining operations are science fiction – not to mention legally fraught. But some companies have started considering early-stage plans for how they one day might do it.

Both are adapted from Bruce Sterling short stories about human survival on an asteroid mining operation dominated by competing factions: the genetically-engineered Shapers and the cybernetic ...

From Asteroid Mining to disassembling entire alien planets all the way out to the Galactic Rim, our galaxy has untold resources, but how can we get to them and what do we do if something is ...

A newly discovered asteroid has been ranked among the top three potential threats to Earth. Earlier this year, another near-Earth asteroid drew global attention after astronomers revealed it had a ...

4. Looking ahead: Asteroid mining Asteroid sample return missions generate lots of scientific insights. They can also help space agencies and companies understand what exactly is out there ...

On May 9, a stadium-sized potentially hazardous asteroid will pass by Earth, and you can watch the flyby happen in real time courtesy of a livestream from The Virtual Telescope Project.