Nov 1, 2023 | Energy and Development, Global, Global Energy Future Initiative, Mineral Foundations of the Energy Transition, Minerals and Metals Initiative, Payne News, Space Resources, US and Canada
‘Lunar gold rush’: NASA wants to mine the moon Payne Institute Faculty Fellow Angel Abbud-Madrid contributes to this article about how mining the moon isn’t just fodder for the movies. Scientists at NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey are using their Earthly...
Oct 20, 2023 | Global, Global Energy Future Initiative, Mineral Foundations of the Energy Transition, Minerals and Metals Initiative, Payne News, Space Resources
Things Are Looking Up for Asteroid Mining Payne Institute Faculty Fellow Ian Lange contributed to this article about how asteroids are rich with the metals used in clean energy technologies. As demand soars, advocates argue that mining them in space might be better...
Oct 2, 2023 | Global, Global Energy Future Initiative, Mineral Foundations of the Energy Transition, Minerals and Metals Initiative, Payne News, Research, Space Resources, US and Canada
Mines researchers get $2M from NASA to advance technology for extracting aluminum from lunar soil Payne Institute Faculty Fellow Jihye Kim is featured in an article about Molten regolith electrolysis – which processes melted lunar soil to extract the metals within –...
Feb 8, 2023 | Global, Global Energy Future Initiative, Payne News, Podcast, Space Resources
Company moves to Colorado with asteroid mining in its sights Payne Institute Faculty Fellow Angel Abbud-Madrid is featured on this podcast to talk about the new era of space exploration. February 8,...
Jan 7, 2023 | Global, Global Energy Future Initiative, Mineral Foundations of the Energy Transition, Minerals and Metals Initiative, Payne News, Space Resources
Space mining startups see a rich future on asteroids and the moon Payne Institute Faculty Fellow Angel Abbud-Madrid is featured in the article about how nobody wants to think about a future in which humans don’t thrive. So it’s time for us to go into...
Nov 22, 2022 | Global Energy Future Initiative, Mineral Foundations of the Energy Transition, Minerals and Metals Initiative, Space Resources
For the future of geophysics, not even the sky is the limit Mines Geophysics alumni, faculty look below the surface to enable innovation in energy, infrastructure, space exploration and beyond. As a child, Whitney Schultz ’17, MS ’19 remembers always being fascinated...
