Are we on the verge of mining metals from the asteroids above Earth?
As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...
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Asteroid Mining Gives Companies Hope in the Search for Rare Metals
Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...
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Tell the Astronauts: The Law’s Coming
Last November, while the European Space Agency’s Rosetta team celebrated landing its Philae probe on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, NASA’s Asteroid ... Nations Outer Space Treaty, which ...