Here's how we could turn an asteroid into a space station

Asteroid miners might be best off working inside-out. A new analysis suggest we could place a space station inside a rotating asteroid to provide simulated gravity for the mining equipment.

The past few years have seen an increased interest in mining asteroids. The idea is to send probes to distant space rocks, remove chunks of resources like precious metals, and bring them back to Earth or use them to build in space.

One major problem is that you can’t just jackhammer an asteroid: most of them have such weak gravity that…