{"id":229859,"date":"2026-01-27T01:16:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/theres-an-asteroid-out-there-worth-100000-quadrillion-why-havent-we-mined-it"},"modified":"2026-01-27T01:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:16:52","slug":"theres-an-asteroid-out-there-worth-100000-quadrillion-why-havent-we-mined-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/theres-an-asteroid-out-there-worth-100000-quadrillion-why-havent-we-mined-it","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s an asteroid out there worth $100,000 quadrillion. Why haven\u2019t we mined it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theres-an-asteroid-out-there-worth-100000-quadrillion-why-havent-we-mined-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While asteroids are rich sources of precious and valuable materials, scientists still haven\u2019t fully committed to mining them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While asteroids are rich sources of precious and valuable materials, scientists still haven\u2019t fully committed to mining them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}