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

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

NASA and AstroForge missions prove Space is Hard Engineers are continuing to attempt to make contact with NASA's stricken ...

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 ...

"Even worse, because this is so powerful, we are trying to reach a spacecraft which at this point is 300,000 km [186,411 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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