This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, ...

Despite losing both of its spacecraft, the startup is preparing for its $55 million Mission 3, which will launch next year.

Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...

Asteroid mining presents a compelling frontier with vast reserves of essential metals and volatiles, drawing interest from private companies and government agencies. Technological advancements and ...

Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips form the backbone of the bitcoin (BTC) mining industry. ASIC machines are made for a single purpose: To solve Bitcoin’s SHA-256 algorithm as ...

“Giant Asteroid” has been a popular also-ran in the last three presidential elections, at least judging from bumper stickers, and those wiseacres who preferred planetary annihilation to Hillary, Biden ...

In the future, if asteroid mining ever became necessary as well as economically and technically feasible, it's thought they could provide an abundance of resources. The level of damage also ...

He added the miner used a 480-gigahash per second (GH/s) Bitaxe machine. For comparison, many big crypto-mining companies use machines that can operate at over 230,000 GH/s. “A miner of this ...

Users do not need to buy expensive mining machines or master complex operation and maintenance skills. They can participate in Bitcoin mining by simply registering. This innovative solution not only ...

The soldiers use truck-mounted machine guns to shoot down Russian drones packed with explosives. The Ukrainians said they are fueled by anger at Russia and a desire to protect their country.

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...