These Are the Asteroids You Should Mine

A new generation of rockets aims to unlock new business models in space, including the science fiction dream of extracting resources from asteroids.

Researchers are taking a closer look at asteroids to figure out which of these objects makes sense as a target for future mining missions. A team from Spain’s Institute of Space Sciences spent over a decade analyzing samples from carbon-rich asteroids, the most common type of space rocks found in the solar system, to understand what might…