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 ...
Celestium on MSNOpinion
If asteroid mining works, scarcity breaks
Asteroid mining wouldn’t just change space exploration—it would reshape life on Earth. A sudden influx of metals and ...
Asteroid mining has shifted from science fiction to business plan, with serious money and engineering talent now chasing metals and water locked inside near‑Earth rocks. The promise is simple but ...
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 ...
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 ...
On December 6, 2020, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft dropped off pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu in the Australian outback, becoming the world’s second asteroid sample return mission, after the first ...
If researchers one day spot an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has already demonstrated that we can change its path by smashing a spaceship ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results