Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a reactor the size of a small watermelon. Here, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a ...

The global mining sector is experiencing a renewed surge in interest, fuelled by record gold prices and rising demand for critical minerals linked to AI and electrification. ・The global mining sector ...

A mineral resources map of a section of the Moon produced by the US Geological Survey with data from NASA and JAXA missions The global race for mining and critical minerals is on. Through their Belt ...

As humanity edges closer to mining the moon, industry analysts warn that established mining companies, not venture-backed space startups, may dominate the emerging lunar resource sector. The space ...

Europe’s spacetech elite are making their final preparations for a groundbreaking meeting with an asteroid. A spacecraft called Hera — named after the Greek goddess of marriage — will make the ...

British VC fund Founders Factory has launched the Mining Tech Accelerator in partnership with Rio Tinto, as the metals giant seeks to find better ways to cash-in on surging demand for lithium, copper, ...

Via its Odin spacecraft, AstroForge plans to take pictures of its target asteroid. Credit: AstroForge Asteroid mining startup AstroForge has raised a $40 million Series A funding round. The company ...

Does the United Nations need to form a Parliament to regulate space mining? The answer will likely be yes if we ask from within the U.N. itself. Posing this question outside that forum, however, one ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior said Tuesday that it’s beginning the process of selling deep-sea mining leases after a request from startup Impossible Metals (previously Impossible Mining). The ...

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet. Odin is around 270,000 miles (434,522 kilometers) away from Earth, on a ...