(Natural News) The Asteroid Mining Corporation in Britan bared plans to mine a nearby asteroid in 2027. CEO Mitch Hunter-Scullion, who founded the company in March 2016, aims to advance the Third Industrial Revolution with asteroid mining. He considers the project as the “single greatest economic opportunity in human history.” In particular, Hunter-Scullion’s team will target Asteroid 1986 DA. Previous research […]

(Natural News) Experts have warned that space mining would cause a new Gold Rush that might deplete the resources of the solar system in several centuries. Before that disaster happens, humans must set up “space wildernesses.” The proposal came from researchers at the Smithsonian Institution and King’s College London. It recommended setting aside seven-eights of […]

(Natural News) Most Hollywood films that revolve around asteroid impacts end with the heroes successfully blowing up the incoming space rock in the nick of time. But researchers warn that a potential killer asteroid hurtling toward Earth is going to be much harder to stop in real life. Like many others before them, the Johns Hopkins […]

(Natural News) Move over, International Space Station (ISS) – Austrian researchers believe it is possible to build future space stations inside the bigger asteroids orbiting the Earth and mine the space rocks for valuable resources. In a study supported by the University of Vienna, the researchers used mathematics to demonstrate how to dig a tunnel toward the center of an asteroid, […]

(Natural News) The Space Race was originally driven by national prestige, scientific curiosity, and technological prowess. Tourism eventually joined those lofty reasons, being backed by big names and big money. In a CNBC article, the potentially huge profits of space mining are the newest reason to get into space. Space tourism is slowly but steadily […]