Who 'owns' planets in space?

Milky galaxy is the owner of the solar system and earth ,not any living beings because nature had chosen us to live here in solar system ,not us . We can mine and sell the valuable goods from planets resources where we had invested to built infrastructures and mine . read more

There's a 1967 international "Outer Space Treaty" in place that more than 102 major nations have signed agreeing that the moon and the planets and their satellites can be visited but no one can "claim" them as territory and defines other legalities of the use of outer space. read more

Commentators agree that the Outer Space Treaty is an excellent foundation for international space law, but it makes no reference to commercial space activities, such as the exploitation of space resources; presumably because this was not foreseen back in 1967. read more