Excitement for asteroid mining has dropped off a bit since it was attracting more investment in the early 2010s, but with NASA and SpaceX forging onward with plans to establish a presence on the ...

California-based AstroForge will ramp up its bid to commercialize mining in space with the first ... dock on the company’s target near-Earth asteroid, whose identity remains unknown.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved ...

A U.S. asteroid-mining company has announced the target space rock for its upcoming test mission. California-based AstroForge has identified asteroid 2022 OB5 as the destination for its Mission 2 ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Space mining company AstroForge has revealed the destination of its next asteroid prospecting mission and has signed a contract with Stoke Space for several future launches.

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar ...

Deep Space Mining is a company who sees the next step of humanity in the asteroids. They have a set of goals that including launching unmanned spacecraft to mine elements on asteroids and become ...

A U.S. asteroid-mining company has announced the target space rock for its upcoming test mission. Odin will separate shortly after the Falcon 9 upper stage fires its engines to head for the moon.

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