Asterank, a database that estimates the value and cost of mining over 600,000 asteroids, paints an optimistic picture. While the software engineer behind the project admits that the information ...

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 ...

The primary goal, he said, is to make sure Odin turns on and communicates back to Earth. Mission success, Gialich told his ...

California-based AstroForge will ramp up its bid to commercialize mining in space with the first ... nickel and platinum-group metals are found in asteroids—some of which swing by relatively ...

AstroForge has identified asteroid 2022 OB5 as the destination for its Mission 2 spacecraft, named Odin, which is set to launch next month on a SpaceX rocket.

Alaskans are pretty familiar with a variety of resources that are regularly mined in the state, but perhaps not too familiar with the idea of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) mining.

Asteroids: Fun information about space rocks — Asteroid-mining company AstroForge gets 1st-ever FCC license for commercial deep-space mission ...