Investors on the lookout for startups working at the frontiers of technology are casting their nets ever further into ...

No company has ever achieved what asteroid mining startup AstroForge is about to set out to do. Success is anything but ...

California-based space company AstroForge launched what it claimed to be the first "commercial deep space mission in history.

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...

A private mission on its way to deep space has encountered "massive issues" shortly after departing the Earth. On February 26 ...

"I think we all know the hope is fading as we continue the mission," AstroForge founder Matt Gialich said in a video update ...

The spacecraft is set to spend a little under ... that the price of space travel continues to go down. Even if asteroid mining isn’t possible today, or done by AstroForge, it may become reality ...

A second mission would land on the asteroid and test for platinum and other elements - the first mining expeditions could ...

The first commercial spacecraft headed beyond the moon is on its way to deep space, but the mission is suffering from unknown ...

The Falcon 9 rocket, packed with exploratory payloads, is scheduled to blast off at 7:17 p.m. ET on Wednesday, February 26.

A day later, however, NASA shared that mission operators had lost communication with the spacecraft in the wee hours of ...