A start-up with high-profile backers unveiled its plan to send robotic spacecraft to remotely mine asteroids, an ambitious effort aimed at opening up ...
A new aerospace company called Deep Space Industries has unveiled its plans to prospect, sample and mine asteroids to make fuel and metal spacecraft ...
A company called Planetary Resources will be unveiled; it's mission: to harvest resources from asteroids. Backers include James Cameron and Larry Page...
Private investors stake money on robotic rockets to mine near Earth asteroids for rare minerals and water. Project to start by 2014 to identify aster...
Google executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt and filmmaker James Cameron are among those bankrolling a venture to survey and eventually extract preci...
Mining for precious metals in space isn't just for Starcraft and Mass Effect fans anymore. Kevin Pereira talks to Dr. Peter Diamandis from the X Prize...
How can we protect the earth from being hit with an asteroid?
One strategy we have right now comes from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology gradu...