The audacious plan was revealed by Los Angeles-based startup TransAstra. The “New Moon” mission is a project designed to rendezvous with a house-sized space rock weighing roughly 100 metric tonnes and ...

TransAstra has developed a plan to bag an asteroid and move it to a stable near-Earth orbit for processing. Reading time 2 minutes There are roughly 250 small, near-Earth asteroids teeming with ...

Tesla and Bitcoin investor Gali highlighted the possibility of Bitcoin mining in space, calling it a potential boost for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meteorite chemistry shows which primitive asteroids may hold usable metals or water, and why most space mining remains difficult. ...

Starcloud aims to be the first to mine a coin in space, says CEO Philip Johnston ...

Starcloud, backed by Nvidia, is set to launch Bitcoin mining ASICs into space in 2026, potentially marking the first extraterrestrial crypto mining operation.

Would-be regulators seem determined to insert themselves into the final frontier. The only saving grace is that if they want to assert their presence, they'll have to hitch a ride from a private space ...

The EU's Commissioner for Space and Defense, warns of the bloc losing influence in space as it expresses ambition to mine the moon and asteroids for resources. Faltering energy security and unstable ...

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 ...

Starcloud, an Nvidia-backed orbital data center startup, said it will connect Bitcoin ASICs to mine the cryptocurrency in space when its second spacecraft launches later this year.

Asteroids colliding with Earth might seem farfetched, but the planetary threat is real. Just this year news broke of an asteroid with a 1%–2% chance of a fatal collision occurring in 2032. While more ...

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small asteroids actually made of, in measurable detail? Researchers at the Institute ...