As private companies rush to harvest resources from asteroids and moons, new concerns are surfacing. Could removing massive ...

But others question whether mining these metals in space and bringing them back to Earth is really feasible, especially in the near term – and whether it could have its own unique, but just as ...

What Happened: According to a study published in Planetary and Space Science, ancient asteroid strikes deposited platinum group metals (PGMs) across the lunar surface. As per The Times, the estimated ...

could get a piece of the mining action. "Space mining is definitely going to happen. It is an inevitability, is not a possibility and it's going to happen in the very near-term," said Daniel Sax ...

Magnets, centrifuges, or electrostatic charges could separate some types of minerals. These would likely be smelted into the forms needed in space rather than bringing raw ores back to the planet ...

The Trump administration is trying to position direct lithium extraction, deepsea mining and battery materials-focused ...

This February, California-based asteroid mining startup AstroForge embarked on what it hoped would be one of the most important launches in history: the first commercial deep space mission.

Does the United Nations need to form a Parliament to regulate space mining? The answer will likely be yes if we ask from within the U.N. itself. Posing this question outside that forum ...

Fleet Space’s end-to-end mineral exploration solution, ExoSphere, has been used to conduct hundreds of surveys across five continents for global mining leaders like Barrick Gold, Rio Tinto, and ...