In an exclusive interview with Starlust.org, researcher outlines environmental risks and lack of legal framework.

It was to swoop past 2022 OB5, a rocky asteroid island adrift in a starry sea, and take photographs of it. Odin successfully ...

TransAstra Corporation has laid out a plan to capture entire asteroids using inflatable bags, tow them closer to Earth, and ...

TransAstra has developed a plan to bag an asteroid and move it to a stable near-Earth orbit for processing. Reading time 2 ...

Science fiction might be becoming science reality: Putting a big net up in space, then using it to catch asteroids, and mine ...

TransAstra is performing a study, funded by investors and customers, to explore the technical feasibility of moving a 100-metric-ton asteroid to a stable near-Earth orbit. “We want to bring an ...

It may sound fanciful, but a Los Angeles-based company says it has conceived of a plan to fly out to a smallish, near-Earth ...

"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the expense of the other?" When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Analysis of C type asteroid samples supports use as sources of metals and primordial material and helps target missions and resource technology. (Nanowerk News) Much remains to be known about the ...

A new generation of rockets aims to unlock new business models in space, including the science fiction dream of extracting resources from asteroids. Researchers are taking a closer look at asteroids ...

Mining on Earth is a very complicated issue. So much of what we need in society comes from the processing of ores, and yet there are major environmental and social drawbacks to th ...