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

But with asteroid mining, no company has yet accomplished what Gialich and his team are about to attempt. ‘It’s going to be ...

California-based space company AstroForge launched the first-ever mining mission to an asteroid. The mission is in serious ...

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

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

Spacecraft launches to map asteroid resources. First asteroid miner aims to identify valuable minerals. Mission marks a step towards space mining. A spacecraft designed to map asteroid resources ...

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction (and it is, as asteroid mining was a central theme ... and Karman+’s own work so far building its spacecraft with off-the-shelf components, the ...

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 decade ago, news stories were aflutter about the wealth promised by asteroid mining companies. But things didn't quite work ...