Here is how metal-eating bacteria may make asteroid mining profitable

[caption id="attachment_816376" align="alignright" width="540"] Image by MarcelClemens|Shutterstock.com[/caption] Start-up Deep Space Industries, one of the two main firms planning to mine asteroids, comets and even the moon, is studying the feasibility of injecting bioengineered microbes into targeted celestial bodies, to get a...

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