China has successfully developed a moon robot with both limbs and wheels—presumably to be used to extract resources from the ...

Robots are rapidly shifting from supporting characters in spaceflight to the central tools that could make long term life on the Moon possible. Instead of astronauts hauling regolith and assembling ...

Starbase, a space launch facility located at the southern tip of Texas, U.S. The massive Starship rocket, carrying Interlune’s lunar regolith excavation equipment ‘Harvester,’ roars into the sky. The ...

Is the moon home to $1 trillion worth of precious metals? That's what a new study claims, signalling the possibility of an expensive resource extraction race in the coming years. What Happened: ...

The EU's Commissioner for Space and Defense, warns of the bloc losing influence in space as it expresses ambition to mine the moon and asteroids for resources. Faltering energy security and unstable ...