"The high-rate excavation needed to harvest helium-3 from the moon in large quantities has never been attempted before, let ...

And scraping in space, advocates say, could cut down on the damaging impacts that mining has on this planet. Space-resource advocates also want to explore the potential of other substances.

The support helped launch the Collegiate Space Mining Competition (dubbed CoSMiC) May 21-24 at the Student Innovation Center ...

could get a piece of the mining action. "Space mining is definitely going to happen. It is an inevitability, is not a possibility and it's going to happen in the very near-term," said Daniel Sax ...

Currently, space mining’s primary draw is to sustain human activity in space. That is, materials offered by asteroids and the lunar surface are typically of a lower grade than those found on ...

Does the United Nations need to form a Parliament to regulate space mining? The answer will likely be yes if we ask from within the U.N. itself. Posing this question outside that forum ...

Here’s how it works. Physics-based space mining simulator Delta V: Rings of Saturn, stylized as ΔV: Rings of Saturn, came out of early access this week. It is, in my opinion, the best space ...

This ability not only caught the attention of the scientific community but also raised intriguing possibilities for future mining ventures—both on Earth and in space. The discovery was made by ...