Can we use fungus to mine precious metals from asteroids?

A fungus aboard the ISS extracted palladium from meteorite rock, hinting at future space mining powered by living microbes.

Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.

Microbes have just pulled off a feat that sounds like science fiction, stripping valuable metals from a meteorite fragment ...

An experiment on board the ISS tested the use of microorganisms to mine asteroids in the microgravity environment.

According to Space.com and Cornell University, NASA astronauts conducted a microbe-based meteorite mining experiment aboard the International Space Station to study mineral extraction in microgravity.

A niche corner of the commercial space sector is attracting attention from United States national security planners, not because of its economic promise, but because of the technical problems it is ...

A study found that these cosmic bodies appear to hold up remarkably well to sudden energy deposition and shock conditions, so we may be able to knock them off course and avoid disaster.

In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

On February 9, 1913, hundreds of fireball meteors rained down on North America for no apparent reason. This strange event is ...