At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a reactor the size of a small watermelon. Here, scientists with the mining technology startup Still Bright are using a ...

Asteroid-mining startup AstroForge plans to make history next year. The California company announced Tuesday (Aug. 20) that it aims to launch its third mission in 2025, as a ridealong on Houston ...

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 ...

Officials from across the U.S. political spectrum vow to ramp up efforts to wean the nation off rare-earth mineral imports from China. But the most promising path isn’t central planning or a federal i ...

Starbase, a space launch facility located at the southern tip of Texas, U.S. The massive Starship rocket, carrying Interlune’s lunar regolith excavation equipment ‘Harvester,’ roars into the sky. The ...

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 ...

ServiceNow announced this morning that it was acquiring Czech Republic task mining company UltimateSuite, giving the company a new way to capture and understand how work flows through a business. The ...

Since launching its first test mission to vaporize bits of an asteroid in space, AstroForge has struggled to keep a hold of its spacecraft and is now at risk of losing the ability to send commands to ...

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, ...