The majority of these asteroids are located within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. However, there are also approximately 34,000 known near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) – and around 2,000 ...

The closest thing you’ll find to asteroid-mining equipment is the Asteroids video game that used to sit in the break room. (The high bid as of Wednesday night was $801.) ...

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.

Traditionally, asteroid mining has focused on precious materials like noble metals and PGMs, Ellery said, but only one in 2,000 near-Earth objects (NEOs) is known to have PGMs in economically ...

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.

Image of asteroid 101955 Bennu taken by Indian Space Research Organization on June 29, 2014.

Mining the top 10 most cost-effective asteroids - largely based on how close they are to Earth - could rake in a profit of $1.5 trillion, according to Asterank, a database keeping track of over ...

Late last month, asteroid-mining firm Planetary Resources promised to make one of its Arkyd telescopes available for public use if $1 million could be raised for the effort by June 30 via the ...

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.

Exovia is a physics-based asteroid mining and logistics simulator coming to Steam in 2026. Play as a lone engineer mining asteroids, building a warp gate, and gathering resources for humanity.

Asteroid-mining startup AstroForge plans to launch its third mission, which will land on a metallic space rock, in 2025.

Founded as early as January 2022, California-based startup AstroForge raised $13 million in seed funding to build advanced technology in mining asteroids for so-called platinum-group metals.