A small asteroid named 2022 OB5 has revealed an unexpected obstacle for asteroid miners: it rotates once every 1.542 minutes, ...

SpaceX IPO filing reveals Elon Musk's vision for Mars factories, asteroid mining, and space tourism.

Asteroid mining seems simple in theory. A spacecraft flies up to a giant rock in space, scoops out some material, and either ...

Asteroid mining isn’t just a concept anymore, as private missions are on the verge of launching to space to extract resources. However, the concept seems to have moved from theory to reality faster ...

Fragile and chemically complex, carbonaceous meteorites rarely survive the long fall to Earth intact. When they do, they ...

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small asteroids actually made of, in measurable detail? Researchers at the Institute ...

AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new frontier for precious metals. Reading time 7 minutes California startup AstroForge ...

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet. Odin is around 270,000 miles (434,522 kilometers) away from Earth, on a ...

Is the moon home to $1 trillion worth of precious metals? That's what a new study claims, signalling the possibility of an expensive resource extraction race in the coming years. What Happened: ...

Somewhere between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, a giant metallic world drifts silently through deep space. Unlike ordinary ...