asteroid mining

Asteroid mining sounds inevitable, but physics and markets are unforgiving. This guide explains metals, water, launch cost, robotics, and realistic business cases.

Asteroid mining could unlock trillions in metals and water. Explore the targets, companies, technologies, and economics of mining the sky.

The asteroid belt contains enough metal to give every human being 100 billion dollars' worth. It also contains the raw materials to build hundreds of thousands of O'Neill habitats. Here's what asteroid mining would actually look like — and what it would do to the world economy.