"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the expense of the other?" ...

Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ambitious economic goals.

Earth may be safe from an impact by the asteroid 2024 YR4, but it still has a chance of striking the moon. This lunar impact could pose a risk to space tech and astronauts.

The actual mining and refining technology would then be demonstrated on subsequent missions. Asteroid-mining company AstroForge gets 1st-ever FCC license for commercial deep-space mission ...

Asteroid mining on any commercial scale is decades away and would be wildly expensive -- and we don't yet know what 16 Psyche actually contains -- so gold's scarcity is still in play today and for ...

NASA is monitoring a plane-sized asteroid zooming past the Earth on Thursday at around 13,600 miles per hour. The space rock known as "2022 YS5" made its closest approach at around 4.15 million ...

While Asteroid 2024 YRA has a minute chance of hitting Earth in seven years, the co-lead of NASA's DART mission says a small spacecraft could deflect the space rock's course.

Highlights of the Venice Immersive competition include “Bourne Identity” director Doug Liman ‘s upcoming XR short “Asteroid,” which is “about a group of strangers who risk it all by ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth, but media reports too often ignore the unlikelihood of impact in reports of near-Earth asteroids, a Tucson astronomer says.