Asteroid mining is a potential trillion-dollar industry, but before any prospectors start fitting their mules for spacesuits, surveying is going to be more important than extraction. To help find out ...

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If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. Yesterday morning we made a spectroscope-- a device that breaks light down into a rainbow of component colors -- ...

Two recent events – one legal and the other technological – have brought asteroid mining a step closer to reality. The legal development came about when the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation ...

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THIS volume contains a fair amount of information useful to those wishing to purchase and set up spectroscopic apparatus for chemical research, but it seems to us to be ill-assorted and indifferently ...

ANOTHER point was also very obvious to those who are familiar with these inquiries, namely, that if these prominences really consisted of gas, by the use of a powerful spectroscope it was perfectly ...

The fate of the universe hinges on the balance between matter and dark energy: the fundamental ingredient that drives its accelerating expansion. New results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic ...

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