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

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

If the extraction from asteroids is for scientific research ... political level when it's commercial – Rosanna Deplano Mining in space could shift the balance of power between often developing ...

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

The prospect of space mining — extracting minerals from the moon, Mars and other extraterrestrial bodies — has long captured ...

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

in service of the company’s ambitious goal of mining asteroids for profit. AstroForge was also hoping to become the first company to launch a commercial mission to deep space with its in-house ...

Chinese scientists have developed a six-legged "space mining robot" inspired by insects, which may be used for prospecting ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast and a member of one of Nasa's sky surveys that searches and tracks ...

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 floating ...