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Advancements in robotics technology might enable scientists to drill asteroids for precious metals such as iron, nickel and platinum.

Anyone successfully pulls off asteroid mining, which, considering there are only a few protections in place for the preservation of space, means that hungry pioneers might end up further exploiting our natural world for profit. of course not all space research is about what we bring back from the beyond. as more and more of us head up there, paul carter has been looking at how we might go about building space habitats for humans. the international space station. a home to humans since the year 2000, with seven researchers on board at any time. and our interplanetary population is set to grow, ...

Back in 2018, we visited the japanese space agency, jaxa, to meet the team behind hayabusa2. this audacious mission successfully flew to ryugu, blew a hole in it, and brought samples back to earth. so we thought before the landing that it was one sort of asteroid, but now we have actually started analysing it, we realise it's actually experienced an awful lot of alteration with water. and as we know, water could mean life. but what does professor bridges think about commercial asteroid mining? i think it's a really fascinating area. will it be economic to bring back a large fragment of an aste...

Back in 2018, we visited the japanese space agency, jaxa, to meet the team behind hayabusa2. this audacious mission successfully flew to ryugu, blew a hole in it, and brought samples back to earth. so, we thought before the landing, that it was one sort of asteroid, but now we have actually started analysing it, we realise it's actually experienced an awful lot of alteration with water. and as we know, water could mean life. but what does professor bridges think about commercial asteroid mining? i think it's a really fascinating area. will it be economic to bring back a large fragment of an as...

And one of those is called ryugu, and that's the one that all the fuss was about. back in 2018, we visited the japanese space agency, jaxa, to meet the team behind hayabusa2. this audacious mission successfully flew to ryugu, blew a hole in it, and brought samples back to earth. so, we thought before the landing that it was one sort of asteroid, but now we've actually started analysing it, we realise it's actually experienced an awful lot of alteration with water. and, as we know, water could mean life. but what does professor bridges think about commercial asteroid mining? i think it's a real...