More than 20 people who excavated King Tutankhamun's tomb in the 1920s later died young from a range of maladies.
The US President has signed a new executive order to support the acquisition of resources in space.
According to Goldman Sachs, asteroid mining has the potential to produce the world's first trillionaires.
A solitary tree on an island in New Zealand may hold the key to determining the beginning of the Anthropocene.
The iron-rich asteroid 16 Psyche is so valuable that, if mined, it would collapse the global economy.
Experts are no closer to determining why the trees outside Gryfino, Poland are all bent out of shape.
Pastor Emmanuel Momoh discovered the monster-sized diamond while mining in the country's Kono region.
NASA is funding a new concept that could equip small asteroids with 3D-printed propulsion systems.
Russian scientists have been determining how to use nuclear weapons to protect the Earth from asteroids.
Scientists have discovered the region of the brain responsible for determining human intelligence.
A new bill has been approved that will make it possible for companies to mine resources from asteroids.
A nearby asteroid loaded with a platinum core is thought to be worth an unfathomable amount of money.
Scientists have proposed a rather unorthodox way of prospecting for gold and other valuable metals.
The SuperSTEM 3 is capable of examining objects a million times smaller than a human hair.
A new study has confirmed that dogs are adept at reading the emotions of their human owners.
The time of the year in which you were born may play a role in determining your temperament as an adult.
A new study has suggested that very few nearby asteroids are suitable for commercial-scale mining.
The Bigelow Aerospace Inc. chief is calling for the rights to conduct mining operations on the moon.