Today scientists are closely tracking 434 asteroids that are large enough and come close enough to the Earth to be of potential future concern, and while none of these pose any significant risk today, increased surveillance is required.

By: Mike Wall Published: 01/24/2013 10:07 AM EST on SPACE.com Exploiting the many resources of our solar system may enable humanity to venture bey...

By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Jan 22 - A team of entrepreneurs and engineers unveiled plans on Tuesday for a space mining compan...

By: Mike Wall Published: 06/08/2012 06:58 AM EDT on SPACE.com The nations of the world need to work together to develop a warning and communicat...

By: InnovationNewsDaily Staff Published: 05/20/2012 02:14 PM EDT on InnovationNewsDaily A new biologically-inspired robot could one day crawl ov...

I was recently invited to guest host "The Point," presented by "The Young Turks'" YouTube channel, TownSquare. As the Science Correspondent (and resid...

The exhaustibility of mineral resources on Earth and their almost infinite deposits on other planetary bodies in our solar system are fast leading to the development of a whole new industry spearheaded by exploratory-entrepreneurial visionaries.

The announcement this week of an asteroid mining venture -- backed by Google executives, the Perot Group, and James Cameron, among others -- is precisely the sort of item that conjures both absurdity and horror in its full implications.

SEATTLE -- Using space-faring robots to mine precious metals from asteroids almost sounds easy when former astronaut Tom Jones describes it – pr...