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

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 ...

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 ...

While the idea sounds like science fiction, NASA's upcoming mission to the asteroid is bringing this cosmic dream closer to reality.

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) — Asteroids contain large quantities of both precious and common metals, and despite the obvious challenges in reaching them, a few startups say these celestial bodies could offer a sustainable ...