A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

His venture may seem far out, but asteroid mining CEO Matt ... answered with the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015, which Stimers had a hand in crafting, he said.

The goal of the company's mission is a bold one, becoming the first commercially-built craft to navigate ... by going into space to find those precious elements. There have been many discussions about ...

Asteroid mining is hard ... first time in 2001 – but also of designing craft capable of mining while withstanding the extreme conditions of space and eventually getting the materials back ...

One of the details of the Artemis Accords was actually explicitly permitting space mining, provided it complies with the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 and is done in a "safe and sustainable" way ...

On the plus side, mining those asteroids is tons of fun. Jump in your space freighter, blast off to one of the asteroids passing through your claim, then land on it with your shuttle craft.

Imagine a future where Earth is a zone reserved for living, and heavy industries and mining has moved off-world. Space mining can in fact, not only contribute to this, but it can enable human ...

A House hearing on space mining turned into a skirmish over billionaire Elon Musk’s potential conflicts of interest as he seeks to overhaul the federal government. Democrats have been ...