"Odin's role is to gather critical imagery of the target asteroid, preparing the way for our next mission, Vestri, which will aim to land on the asteroid and begin extraction." When you purchase ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, part of an ambitious mission to explore the outer solar system, has successfully captured its first images of the asteroid Donaldjohanson. This marks an important step in the ...

Investors on the lookout for startups working at the frontiers of technology are casting their nets ever further into unchartered territory, sometimes literally as well as figuratively. In one of the ...

This February, California-based asteroid mining startup AstroForge embarked on what it hoped would be one of the most important launches in history: the first commercial deep space mission. Strapped ...

NASA has released a set of extraordinary radar images showing an asteroid spinning so fast that it has forced scientists to rethink long-held assumptions about small bodies in space. The asteroid, ...

When Joel Sercel thinks about the promise of extracting valuable resources from asteroids for use in space, he recalls other world-changing technologies that exploded when the time and circumstances ...

His venture may seem far out, but asteroid mining CEO Matt Gialich has no illusions. The engineer cofounded the bold California startup AstroForge in 2022 with the aim of hunting for precious metals ...

"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the expense of the other?" GOLDEN, Colorado — There are those who envision big ...