asteroid mining

NASA is delaying contracts and other awards planned for its Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) early this year by a few months, citing uncertainty about the agency’s budget.

Multiple companies are pursuing space mining activities, so what's standing in the way of a space mining gold rush?

Once thought of as a pipe-dream, exploitation of the solar system's asteroids is being planned by a growing community of asteroid mining companies and scientists.

An asteroid mining concept could quickly deliver satellites to high orbit on the cheap.

The asteroid-mining company Planetary Resources recently raised more than $20 million in venture funding, but also had to shut down a crowdfunded space telescope due to a lack of financial interest.

The Luxembourg government on Feb. 3 announced it would seek to jump-start an industrial sector to mine asteroid resources in space by creating regulatory and financial incentives.