As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims look at how close we really are extracting rare minerals ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

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 ...

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O ...

As for AstroForge's Odin asteroid-mining scout, unfortunately, like the Lunar Trailblazer, Odin has also fallen out of contact with controllers. The most likely scenario is that the probe is in a slow ...

California-based space company AstroForge launched what it claimed to be the first "commercial deep space mission in history." The company's plan was to send its washing machine-sized spacecraft, ...

NANJING -- A team of Chinese scientists has created a six-legged "space mining robot" inspired by insects, which could be ...

California startup AstroForge launched a spacecraft dubbed Odin on February 26, but the team lost communication with it shortly after launch.

A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining. The probe, called Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket alongside ...