His venture may seem far out, but asteroid mining CEO Matt Gialich has no illusions. The engineer cofounded the bold California startup AstroForge in 2022 with the aim of hunting for precious ...

California-based space company AstroForge launched what it claimed to be the first "commercial deep space mission in history." The company's plan was to send its washing machine-sized spacecraft, ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O ...

A team of Chinese scientists has created a six-legged "space mining robot" inspired by insects, which could be used for prospecting and mining on the moon or asteroids in the future.

As for AstroForge's Odin asteroid-mining scout, unfortunately, like the Lunar Trailblazer, Odin has also fallen out of contact with controllers. The most likely scenario is that the probe is in a slow ...

Asteroid mining can be pretty chill, except for that ticking clock. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Earth. It's a great ...

A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining. The probe, called Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket alongside ...

High Frontier will aim to validate the company’s approach to deep space mining, testing autonomous navigation systems and zero-gravity mining equipment for asteroid regolith excavation. The full ...