“Microbes are the world’s oldest miners,” says Liz Dennett, founder and CEO of the start-up Endolith Mining, based near ...

They contain high grades of the metals we need, like nickel, copper, cobalt and manganese. Cutlery, computers, the buildings ...

NASA has estimated that the metals in these asteroids could be worth as much as $10 billion per person, and mining the richest ten asteroids could yield $1.5 trillion. However, the actual extraction ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 is considered Earth's mini-moon and may be a key target for potential asteroid mining operations.

NASA Glenn is leading America's urgent push to beat China in establishing the first lunar power plant by 2030, with implications that could reshape our future in space.

And they laid out demands that included creating a Lithium Valley joint powers authority with a local advisory commission, ...

Scientists estimate that 20 million tonnes of gold, worth more than $2 quadrillion, is dissolved into our planet’s oceans.

The ocean holds gold, but dreams of instant riches are far-fetched. While gold exists in seawater, its concentration is ...

Different parts of Mars have different advantages and disadvantages when it comes to their available resources, just like Earth. The polar caps are likely the most valuable in terms of their water ...

Scientists spotted these locations by looking at isotopes, or element types, in the sample of Bennu's dust. Isotopes that originated in the solar system had a different makeup than those that came ...

It’s not easy to uncover exoplanets, largely lightless objects that either lurk in the dark void of space or are blown out by the light of a nearby star. But astronomers using the James Webb Space ...