SpaceX has identified asteroid mining as a potential future opportunity.

Space is full of treasures. Literally. If we were able to extract the resources from the rocks in the asteroid belt alone, we ...

Asteroid mining isn’t just a concept anymore, as private missions are on the verge of launching to space to extract resources. However, the concept seems to have moved from theory to reality faster ...

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet. Odin is around 270,000 miles (434,522 kilometers) away from Earth, on a ...

AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new frontier for precious metals. Reading time 7 minutes California startup AstroForge ...

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small asteroids actually made of, in measurable detail? Researchers at the Institute ...

Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbor valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a ...

A U.S. asteroid-mining company has announced the target space rock for its upcoming test mission. Odin will separate shortly after the Falcon 9 upper stage fires its engines to head for the moon. The ...

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Asteroids colliding with Earth might seem farfetched, but the planetary threat is real. Just this year news broke of an asteroid with a 1%–2% chance of a fatal collision occurring in 2032. While more ...