Its all-or-nothing, lower-cost approach may help push asteroid mining closer to reality. A SpaceX rocket launched the Pysche spacecraft from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on October 13, 2023.

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.

AstroForge has announced an ambitious commercial mission to observe a distant asteroid—an important step for the California startup as it strives to become the world’s first deep space mining ...

Bucket wheel designs seem to be gaining popularity in space mining more generally lately. NASA's ISRU Pilot Excavator (IPEx) uses a similar design and has been advanced to Technology Readiness ...

AstroForge is betting that asteroid mining will happen soon enough that it doesn’t need gin. Some of the economics are, in fact, better than they were in the 2010s.

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

The asteroid Bennu, a sample from which was retrieved by the OSIRIS-Rex mission in 2020 at a cost of $1.16 billion. The founders of the start-up asteroid mining company AstroForge are confident ...

Even if asteroid mining isn’t possible today, or done by AstroForge, it may become reality for one entity or another down the road. “To me, it is about pushing humans forward,” he said.

Asteroid mining company Karman+ plans to relocate its headquarters to Denver from the Netherlands in a boost for Colorado’s burgeoning space industry. The European space resources startup will ...

By using asteroid mining, companies like AstroForge hope to be able to tap into the vast resources just waiting in space. It, of course, raises a ton of other questions about whether or not we ...

Asteroid-mining startup AstroForge plans to launch its third mission, which will land on a metallic space rock, in 2025. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

Asteroid mining is not a far-flung idea, Dano believes. "There are currently millions of asteroids in our solar system, and about 2 million of them are larger than 1 kilometer.