Martin Elvis

Senior Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Martin Elvis is a senior astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. He is the author of Asteroids: How Love, Fear, and Greed Will Determine Our Future in Space (2021).

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Spacecraft hovering over rocky asteroid surface with a starry night sky backdrop.

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Space exploration

Riches in space

Asteroids could pay for so much space exploration. We just need to mine those valuable resources – and duck a direct hit

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