#Asteroid mining

In a whimsical, 100+ page report, meant to literally drum up interest in investing in an entirely new frontier, Bank of America tries to address the untapped "space" opportunity from the perspective investors. The Primer "sets out the challenges and opportunities posed by Space" and, predictably,

Via The Daily Bell Space police. When is it too soon to make a new federal policing agency to make sure no one is illegally mining asteroids? We can call it the EPA, Extraterrestrial Protection Agency. They can ignore newly structured interplanetary property rights, and insist that space-dust

Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, The centuries-long human fascination with space may go beyond making sci-fi movies and into a brave new world of asteroid mining within just a couple of decades. While scientists and engineers have been studying the costs and technology necessary

Today’s world is built on a foundation of material objects, and Earth is the only place to obtain the natural resources that modern life depends on. But maybe not for much longer. Most of the raw materials we value on Earth exist in much larger quantities in space. Asteroids aren’t much more than

Scientists have only catalogued 1% of near-Earth asteroids. At the current pace, it would take 1,000 years to find all near-Earth asteroids. New laws make asteroid mining potentially insanely lucrative. Millions of rocky objects orbit near Earth. Scientists have identified thousands of