Space mining just got a big boost. The U.S. Congress' passage of a bill that allows American companies to own and sell materials they extract from the moon, asteroids or other celestial bodies ...

This has caught the attention of both researchers and industry, with hopes of one day mining them to support a space economy. But setting up any kind of off-Earth mining industry will be no small ...

The game uses full voxel graphics for all game objects ... Most people tend to do a mixture of the two. Space mining is a staple feature in a variety of sci-fi games, from Starfield to Elite ...

Two companies, Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries, claimed in 2016 that they would be landing on or mining asteroids in the mid–2020s. But both folded and "quietly disappeared after ...

But others question whether mining these metals in space and bringing them back to Earth is really feasible, especially in the near term – and whether it could have its own unique, but just as ...

The new era of space exploration is opening entirely new possibilities, including the tantalizing prospect of mining for resources on the Moon and asteroids. Sounds exciting—and potentially very ...

Meanwhile, another group of people at the United Nations was contemplating a critical issue for the future of space exploration: the discovery, extraction and utilization of natural resources on the ...

The game's been in development for eight years and the pitch is essentially a player-created EVE Online, with a flexible voxel-based ... stuff like space warfare, asteroid mining, and space ...

UK Centre for Astrobiology’s novel investigation aims to utilize microbes for metal and mineral mining from solid rock in space Recently, scientists on the International Space Station have created a ...

The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Michael Dello-Iacovo, Casual academic, UNSW Sydney Serkan Saydam, Off Earth Mining, Future Mining ...