Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes difficult pursuit of tracking deep-space objects.

New Delhi: NASA has identified an asteroid rich in valuable metals like gold and platinum. Named 16 Psyche, the asteroid holds such an immense amount of these resources that, if distributed evenly ...

The mission comes in the wake of the company's first demo mission in April 2023, Brokkr-1, a $10 million mission that tested the technology for extracting and refining platinum from an asteroid ...

Where that asteroid or comet came from ... Germany analyzed samples of this rock layer—known to include traces of platinum-group metals that are otherwise rare on our planet.