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.

Asteroid mining missions may cost upwards of billions of dollars ... potentially reducing exploration costs and granting ...

The probe was headed toward a small asteroid to scan it for valuable metals, in service of the company’s ambitious goal of mining asteroids for profit. AstroForge was also hoping to become the ...

"The way we mine today is one of the most damaging processes on Earth, right?!" he said. "We are destroying our planet to allow us to live in the way we live. Asteroid mining opens up a new gate ...

"In many ways, Odin has become both a pioneer and a teacher — continuing its mission by informing our future endeavors, even ...

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 ...

We'll see you again in a year or so when we start a new attempt." AstroForge was founded in 2022 and aims to become the first company to mine on an asteroid. Odin was built in just ten months.

Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as the so-called "city killer." "This one got a lot of attention because it rose to a threat level that we just have not seen ...