Articles for tag: Alternative Gold Sources, Asteroid Mining, Futuristic Mining, Mining in space, Space Facts

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From Space to Earth: Could Asteroids Solve the Gold Shortage?

Suhail Ahmed

Gold is having a moment again, and not a quiet one. Prices have stormed to fresh records in 2025 as central banks keep buying and investors rush toward safe havens, leaving jewelers juggling costs and policymakers fretting about supply. Meanwhile, a very different story is unfolding far beyond any mine shaft: metal‑rich asteroids orbit the ...

Saturn and its rings

9 Planet Facts That Will Break Your Brain

Suhail Ahmed

Planets don’t behave the way our school posters promised. The closer we look, the stranger they get: days longer than years, rain that hardens into gemstones, rings that are quietly dissolving into a planet’s atmosphere. Thanks to a flood of new data from spacecraft, giant telescopes, and clever lab experiments, the universe is serving plot ...

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10 Space Facts NASA Only Confirmed in the Last Decade

Suhail Ahmed

  The last ten years have completely rewritten what we thought we knew about space, often in ways that feel almost unsettling. In mission briefings and data dumps, NASA scientists have quietly confirmed discoveries that once sounded like science fiction: oceans under ice, worlds with possible rain made of metal, and black holes that seem ...

10 Remarkable Space Facts That Will Make You Rethink the Universe

10 Remarkable Space Facts That Will Make You Rethink the Universe

Andrew Alpin

Space has always been humanity’s greatest mystery, filled with phenomena so extraordinary they challenge our fundamental understanding of reality. From objects denser than we can imagine to expanses larger than we can truly comprehend, the cosmos continues to surprise even our most brilliant scientists. Today’s astronomical discoveries reveal a universe far stranger and more magnificent ...