7-28-14 Update: There they were, at 10,000 feet on the remote and rugged slopes of the Mauna Kea volcano on the big island of Hawaii, running their robot through the same volcanic soil NASA uses to ...

Space mining tech is advancing as robotic systems make asteroid exploration and resource analysis increasingly viable. Autonomous rovers now assess asteroid composition using laser-based spectroscopy, ...

5-23-16 update: Cyclone Space Mining was so close to big mining runs at NASA’s annual robotics competition. But, a broken frame disabled one of the team’s two robots during the team’s first run. Then, ...

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 ...

For the next two weeks, a little patch of Colorado’s Eastern Plains is, for all intents and purposes, the moon. On a cloudy Monday in Watkins, Colorado, a small town about 24 miles east of Denver, ...

As witnesses discussed the benefits and challenges of space mining, members of the House Natural Resources Committee debated if they had jurisdiction on the topic. Credit: House Natural Resources ...