What once seemed like science fiction is quickly becoming an investable reality. The space economy, long dominated by defense ...

Imagine looking up at the night sky in wonder. It’s clear and the blackness is studded with stars, thousands of light years ...

In science-fiction stories, companies often mine the moon or asteroids. While this may seem far-fetched, this idea is edging ...

Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first ...

There might be more than $1 trillion worth of platinum deposits on the moon, according to a paper published in the journal ...

In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility.

The moon is a key step in the journey of space exploration, but making it habitable brings up lots of questions around space ...

The Outer Space Treaty 1967 remains the cornerstone of international space law, setting the rules for all activities beyond Earth – including space resource mining.

On top of that, Article XII of the Outer Space Treaty assumes that there will be installations, like bases or mining operations, on the Moon.

In January 2022, the Outer Space Institute surveyed a random sample of American adults about their opinions on space. Of the 1,520 respondents, 81 per cent agreed with the statement “Outer space ...