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 .

The re-election of President Barack Obama has kept NASA on track to send human explorers to an asteroid, and that means work on a 21st-century spacecraft to fly astronauts to the target space rock ...

NASA sent a spacecraft flying by the Dinkinesh asteroid. The agency discovered that Dinkinesh is actually a binary asteroid system. The Lucy spacecraft discovered that the larger asteroid has a ...

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 ...

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 ...

AstroForge has identified asteroid 2022 OB5 as the destination for its Mission 2 spacecraft, ... A U.S. asteroid-mining ...

"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, ...

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 ...

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.

NASA's DART mission is expected to crash into the asteroid at 7:14 p.m. eastern time Monday after launching 10 months ago. NASA will live stream the event beginning at 6 p.m. with a briefing from ...