A niche corner of the commercial space sector is attracting attention from United States national security planners, not because of its economic promise, but because of the technical problems it is ...

Picture trillionaires emerging not from tech startups or oil empires, but from space rocks floating millions of miles away. That's not science fiction anymore. Companies and space agencies are ...

Psyche is often said to be worth around £8,000,000,000,000,000,000 based on estimates of how much metal it may contain. This ...

Psyche! You could be a billionaire soon. An asteroid discovered by NASA has the potential to set every human for life with ...

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 ...

The next frontier for precious minerals could be much closer to home than the asteroid belt out past the orbit of Mars. A new paper proposes that the minerals borne by these asteroids may have come to ...

Asteroid mining wouldn’t just change space exploration—it would reshape life on Earth. A sudden influx of metals and ...

Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbour valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a ...

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small asteroids actually made of, in measurable detail? Researchers at the Institute ...

On our show we’ve been looking into the still very new economy of space. But while the space economy might be new to us, science fiction has explored it in great detail. Host Molly Wood talked with ...