Strip mining an extrasolar planet, ... a real solar system that is nearly 4.4 light-years away from earth. ... Seth has published hundreds of popular science articles, ...

Rare earths have been described as the oil of the 21st century, incredibly valuable both economically and in the fight against climate change. There's a battle underway around the world to mine and ...

That, in turn, sparked investment in rare earth mining elsewhere. In 2010, there were few other places mining rare earths, with only minimal production from India, Brazil and Malaysia.

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The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off.

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