Asteroid Mining : Science World Report

Aug 13, 2013 08:08 AM EDT

Scientists Discover New Class of Easily Captured Asteroids: 12 Objects for Study

Scientists have discovered a new class of asteroids that might be easily captured, giving both NASA and asteroid mining companies a new target for their endeavors.

Aug 09, 2013 09:39 PM EDT

How to Mine Asteroids: Learn From NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission

Asteroids could one day be a vast new source of scarce material if the financial and technological obstacles can be overcome. Asteroids are lumps of metals, rock and dust, sometimes laced with ices and tar, which are the cosmic "leftovers" from the solar system's formation about 4.5 billion years ag...

May 30, 2013 10:31 AM EDT

Planetary Resources Seeks Funds for Citizen-Controlled Space Telescope

Want a picture of yourself against the backdrop of Earth? It'll only be $25. Planetary Resources is offering incentives to those who donate to their Kickstarter project which aims to eventually launch a citizen-controlled space telescope into orbit.

Apr 17, 2013 02:32 PM EDT

Asteroid Mining Company Will be Supported by Engineering Giant Bechtel

Asteroid mining company Planetary Resources, Inc. announced this week that engineering giant Bechtel has joined their core group of investors and will be a collaborative partner in helping them to achieve its long-term mission, which is to mine near-Earth asteroids for raw materials, ranging from el...

Mar 25, 2013 09:31 PM EDT

Asteroid Mining And Space Colonization a Question of When Not If

A new age of space exploration has begun, one could say just in this current decade as several new private space companies are starting real business outside of Earth.

Feb 15, 2013 01:36 AM EST

Asteroid Mining Company Will Help to Detect and Deflect Them

Nascent asteroid mining company Planetary Resources, Inc. (PRI) announced, on the eve of 2012 DA14's close pass of Earth, that it will provide the capability to aid the deflection of potentially hazardous objects near Earth. The company is currently testing prototypes of its Arkyd-100 space telescop...

Jan 22, 2013 06:18 PM EST

Gallery: Asteroid Mining Company's Futuristic Orbital Infrastructure

Tuesday saw the official launch and press conference of the new asteroid mining company Deep Space Industries (DSI), which presents a couple of both innovative and realistic ideas to start the asteroid mining business. DSI even announced a near-term exploration start by launching small and inexpensi...

Jan 22, 2013 05:46 PM EST

Asteroid Mining Company Launched, Plans to Use 3D-Printers in Space

Tuesday saw the official launch and press conference of the new asteroid mining company Deep Space Industries (DSI), which presents a couple of both innovative and realistic ideas to start the asteroid mining business. DSI even announced a near-term exploration start by launching small and inexpensi...

Jan 04, 2013 04:44 PM EST

Plan for dragging asteroid into lunar orbit surfaced

Plans by NASA to utilize a robotic spacecraft to drag a small asteroid to a lunar orbit surfaced today. According to researchers with the Keck Institute for Space Studies in California, such a mission would cost about $2.6 billion and could happen by the 2020s