Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The BioAsteroid experiment. NASA astronaut Michael Scott Hopkins performs the insertion of the experiment containers in KUBIK.

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A meteorite chip sat in a small container, bathed in liquid, while the International Space Station floated overhead. Inside, a fungus spread thin threads across the rock. A bacterium built a slick ...

Using microorganisms to mine meteorites could be an effective way to extract precious metals in space, scientists say. This is the subject of an experiment aboard the International Space Station that ...