International researchers warn that the planet Venus is concealing at least three city-killer asteroids that could strike ...

Imagine building a power plant around the Sun - that is the basic idea behind a Dyson sphere, a hypothetical megastructure ...

Investors on the lookout for startups working at the frontiers of technology are casting their nets ever further into unchartered territory, sometimes literally as well as figuratively. In one of the ...

If the extraction from asteroids is for scientific research ... political level when it's commercial – Rosanna Deplano Mining in space could shift the balance of power between often developing ...

They orbit with Venus, but they’re headed our way. A newly modeled population of stealthy asteroids could pose a collision risk to Earth.

The California-based space startup, which aims to mine near-Earth asteroids for metal, lost its Mission 1 and Mission 2 spacecraft before either could test the firm's mining technology.

In the vast expanse of space, an estimated 1 million near-Earth objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are ...

Still, several companies have envisioned ambitious plans to acquire precious resources from asteroids in the coming years. Scientists, meanwhile, are interested in another objective: mining for water ...

Asteroids are space rocks that can range in size from dust ... Identifying target asteroids for mining the materials we need in the most cost-effective way. Developing the necessary technology ...

but it could still make mining asteroids for iron economically viable if the material is used in space. So what do all those calculations mean for the actual value of the asteroids that we might mine?

The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.