While asteroid mining is already being undertaken, the first mission didn't exactly go off without a hitch. Here's what ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...

However, these projects face an uphill climb. Asteroid mining missions may cost upwards of billions of dollars, and the technology they’d need to rely on requires further development. Still, several ...

Space Mining Market Size & Growth Insights: According to the SNS Insider,“The Space Mining Market Size was valued at USD 1.69 billion in 2023 and is expected to reach USD 9.15 billion by 2032, growing ...

The company's plan was to send its washing machine-sized spacecraft, dubbed Odin, to visit an asteroid millions of miles from Earth and scout it as a potential mining site. But mere hours after ...

location and shape of some 200,000 rocks on two asteroids using artificial intelligence technology. The photos of asteroid Ryugu were taken by Japan's Hayabusa2 unmanned asteroid probe ...

The nearly 200 foot (60-meter) asteroid looks more like a flat disk — or not-quite-round hockey puck — than a potato. It also has a rapid rotation rate of about once every 20 minutes.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was believed to have a three per cent chance of hitting the Earth in 2032 Picture: NASA/Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope/New Mexico Institute of Technology/Ryan /AFP Previous ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck, scientists said Tuesday. A team of ...