In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

Science fiction has popularized asteroid mining and cities in the sky, but could the future of mining be in cloud cities ...

Mitch is the founder of the Asteroid Mining Corporation (AMC). He admits pulling off such a feat is still a fair way off. Not only would it involve landing robots on a rock, but also remotely ...

Eric Mack is a reporter covering science, sustainability and space ... on the moon or elsewhere in space. Excitement for asteroid mining has dropped off a bit since it was attracting more ...

The asteroid belt is estimated to contain $700 quintillion worth of resources. Mining for metals won’t make you richer than Bezos and Musk unless you can create your own monopoly. Flooding the ...

California-based AstroForge will ramp up its bid to commercialize mining in space with the first ... dock on the company’s target near-Earth asteroid, whose identity remains unknown.

September 12: Commercial space tourism, once a fantasy straight out of a sci-fi movie, blasted off for ... While we are still far away from asteroid mining, the strides made since then are ...