space mining

This is an interesting one. I think many of us have wondered when space mining would eventually take off, as that is just want humans do — they keep expanding out further from their source. Proposal calls for wilderness protection as startup space miners look to the stars Interplanetary...

Thanks to the mothership Hayabusa2, today Japan has made history by landing two robots on the diamond-shaped asteroid Ryugu. The little explorers are traversing the space rock's rugged surface and sending pictures back to Earth. The rovers are built with rotating motors which allows them to...