No company has ever achieved what asteroid mining startup AstroForge is about to set out to do. Success is anything but ...

NASA tracking Asteroid 2024 YR4, which could be heading toward Earth in 2032But fear, Gialich emphasized, is an element of ...

A privately-built spacecraft has blasted off on an unprecedented mission to scout an asteroid for potential mining. The probe, named Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket to survey asteroid 2022 OB5.

A second mission would land on the asteroid and test for platinum and other elements - the first mining expeditions could ...

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...

The probe, known as Odin, is set to travel into deep space to make a pass by of an asteroid known as 2022 OB5 to detect if it ...

The Falcon 9 rocket, packed with exploratory payloads, is scheduled to blast off at 7:17 p.m. ET on Wednesday, February 26.

OB5 is said to consist of raw materials that could be worth mining. The Odin probe is to take a closer look at the celestial ...

Packed with instruments and rovers, the soon-to-launch IM-2 mission will explore the lunar south pole and attempt something ...

A decade ago, news stories were aflutter about the wealth promised by asteroid mining companies. But things didn't quite work ...