Strain on Earth is resources grows in proportion to the human population, and the planet is already running out of important materials such as the rare earth metals that make our electronics work.

The mining potential of the metallic 16 Psyche is unlike any other NASA mission. Somewhere out in space between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid 16 Psyche orbits the sun. And NASA is headed there soon .

Exploring a metal-rich asteroid could launch the start of space mining by Mark R. Whittington, opinion contributor - 10/15/23 10:00 AM ET ...

Asteroid mining is a good example. Scientists have estimated that a single near-Earth asteroid, the 1.5-mile-wide (2.5 km) Amun 3554, contains $20 trillion worth of platinum and other metals.

Asteroid-mining startup AstroForge plans to make history next year. The California company announced Tuesday (Aug. 20) that it aims to launch its third mission in 2025, as a ridealong on Houston ...

That’s because the sample collection procedure was no soft stroke. Nitrogen gas canisters and articulated arms were involved in collecting probably over 2 ounces (60 grams) of asteroid material.

In case an asteroid one day threatens Earth’s existence, NASA has developed a contingency plan: A head-on collision with a spaceship.

In a mission straight out of Armageddon, NASA will purposely crash a spaceship into an asteroid Monday evening in the hope of changing its orbit.The Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART for ...

"Our first planetary defense test was a success," DART mission systems engineer Elena Adams says after a NASA spaceship struck an asteroid seven million miles away in order to deflect its orbit, ...

NASA's DART spaceship on Monday struck the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos, in a historic test of humanity's ability to prevent a cosmic object devastating life on Earth.