Despite losing both of its spacecraft, the startup is preparing for its $55 million Mission 3, which will launch next year.

As concerns over Earth’s limited resources continue to grow, some entrepreneurs are eagerly looking beyond our planet to establish the next big business venture: asteroid mining. The prospect of ...

The company's plan was to send its washing machine-sized spacecraft, dubbed Odin, to visit an asteroid millions of miles from Earth and scout it as a potential mining site. But mere hours after ...

Asteroid mining firms say mining for minerals on asteroids is just around the corner now, but not everyone is convinced (Credit: Getty Images) As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes ...

hitching a ride with Intuitive Machines’ third mission to the Moon. “This is a new frontier, and we got another shot at it with Vestri,” Gialich added. aerospace technology Asteroid mining ...

Vestri will also be on a rideshare mission with Intuitive Machines' IM-3 lunar lander, potentially later in 2025. Related: Space mining startup AstroForge aims to launch historic asteroid-landing ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare minerals from the many celestial bodies above us. Thirty years ago the ...

California-based asteroid mining company AstroForge shared on Thursday that its Odin spacecraft, which ventured to space a week and a half ago with Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander ...

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 ...