Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

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 ...

The most promising clues are not in speculative business plans but in ancient space rocks themselves, whose chemistry and ...

The main goal of a newly announced private space telescope may be protecting Earth, but the instrument could also help out prospective asteroid miners, its builders say. The nonprofit B612 ...

Update: The news is out. Read our latest on Planetary Resources' plan here: Asteroid Miners to Launch World's 1st Crowdfunded Space Telescope A private asteroid mining company will announce a new plan ...

Startup aims to mine asteroids for valuable minerals at a lower cost and with a smaller carbon footprint than mining on Earth. Credit: AstroForge Asteroid mining startup AstroForge has received a ...

The second moon that Earth has captured in its orbit this month is an asteroid called 2024 PT5. Mini-moons like this could be ideal targets for asteroid mining to send humans deeper into space. Space ...

SEATTLE (AP) -- Space-faring robots could be extracting gold and platinum from asteroids within 10 years if a new venture backed by two Silicon Valley titans and filmmaker James Cameron gets off the ...

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All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Asteroid Miner An idle space mining simulator that lets you scan, extract, and refine asteroids while upgrading ships and managing resources. Games metadata ...