Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...

But with asteroid mining, no company has yet accomplished what Gialich and his team are about to attempt. Odin, named for the father of Thor in Norse mythology, will be one of the first spacecraft ...

AstroForge is banking that 2022 OB5 is an M-type asteroid, potentially rich with platinum. And if Odin’s camera can confirm that the space rock contains the valuable metal, a future AstroForge ...

Equipped with an optical camera, Odin will snap photographs and transmit them to the mission team.AstroForge is banking that 2022 OB5 is an M-type asteroid, potentially rich with platinum.