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Bengaluru-based Pixxel Space plans to mine asteroids for building settlements in space
Satellites can look for ice on asteroids which can be used as fuel by splitting it into hydrogen an…
PTI
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Billionaires going to space aim to industrialize the moon, asteroids, and Mars. It's time to set some ground rules.
Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have huge plans in space, but there are no laws or regul…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA probe heads for metal-rich asteroid worth $10 quintillion after launch on SpaceX rocket
With help from Elon Musk's SpaceX, NASA successfully launched a probe headed for an asteroid brimmi…
Filip De Mott
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NASA is visiting an asteroid valued at more than the entire world economy's worth, but that's not why it's going there
The asteroid, named 16 Psyche, is thought to be made of 30% to 60% valuable metals, which could inc…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Jenny McGrath
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Asteroids contain metals worth quintillions of dollars — but mining them won’t necessarily make your richer than Bezos or Musk
There are over a million asteroids that are being tracked by astronomers, and getting your hands on…
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An asteroid loaded with $10 quintillion worth of metals edges closer to US reach
NASA is preparing to launch a spacecraft to study an asteroid thought to be made up of $10 quintill…
Filip De Mott
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Asteroid mining startup founded by ex-SpaceX and Virgin Orbit engineers books first test mission with SpaceX
AstroForge is scheduled to test its technology next year, using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to get int…
Tasmin Lockwood
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Asteroid Day — everything you need to know about the rocks in our solar system that could one day hit Earth
Asteroid Day is just around the corner and there are many questions that people have about asteroid…
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NASA's asteroid-blasting spacecraft has stored over 2 pounds of alien dust and rock to bring back to Earth
Mission scientists raced to stash the asteroid sample because it was leaking into space. Now the pr…
Susie Neilson,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about to suck up asteroid rubble for the first time. Watch the risky maneuver live.
The NASA probe will attempt an intergalactic high-five with asteroid Bennu and use a robotic arm to…
Susie Neilson,Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mosher
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A NASA spacecraft just landed on an asteroid to suck up rocky dust to bring back to Earth. Here's how the mission works.
NASA's Osiris-Rex could find ingredients for life on an asteroid that might crash into Earth. But t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Why Miners Are Looking Into Asteroids, Shipwrecks, And Nuclear Waste [INFOGRAPHIC]
Our friends over at Visual Capitalist put together an interesting infographic on all of the strange…
Matthew Boesler
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Asteroid Mining Company To Reveal Plans For Hammering Into Space Rocks
Although a report prepared by the Keck Institute for Space Studies found that new technologies have…
Dina Spector
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The Asteroid Nearing Earth Could Be Worth $195 Billion - Here's The Plan To Mine The Next One
At least two companies, Planetary Resources and more recently, Deep Space Industries, have announce…
Dina Spector
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Mining Company Will Use 3D Printer To Turn Raw Asteroids Into Valuable Metal Parts
“Using resources harvested in space is the only way to afford permanent space development,” Gump sa…
Dina Spector
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An airplane-size asteroid is about to zoom uncomfortably close to Earth
One more thing: Though this asteroid no longer seems to pose a threat to humanity, there are many n…
Julia Calderone
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An asteroid is going to swoop uncomfortably close to Earth on March 5
Here is a graphical representation of the potential paths asteroid 2013 TX68 could take at the time…
Julia Calderone
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This space mission could save Earth from killer asteroids - but NASA keeps hitting the snooze button
Take the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), for example, which is one of Earth's best current …
Dave Mosher
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A tiny European country just made an unprecedented move in the space mining business
"We commend the Government of Luxembourg in leading the world by establishing this new resource ind…
Jessica Orwig
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We just got a big step closer to scouring key resources from asteroids hurtling through space
Because of its high value for space exploration, water will likely be the first resource to be mine…