Two laws on opposite sides of the Atlantic have given private companies legal cover to extract resources from asteroids, but peer-reviewed economic models and NASA’s own research suggest the path from ...

Investors and dreamers like to picture asteroids as glittering vaults of gold and platinum, a $700 quintillion jackpot waiting to be claimed. The real prize is more prosaic and far more strategic: the ...

Asteroid mining companies are finally getting off the ground, and that is raising some concerns about the impact those activities will have on the space environment. A new paper published in Acta ...