Chinese scientists have built a cat-inspired robot designed to adjust its posture and stick its landing even in low-gravity ...

NASA’s Psyche mission, launched in October 2023, aims to explore a metal-rich asteroid worth $100,000 quadrillion, offering a ...

AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new frontier for precious metals.

The Earth’s natural resources are enormous but not infinite. A lack of some rare minerals can hinder technological ...

Asteroids not only represent a potential threat to humanity, they also offer great opportunities, especially for the future.

Mitch is the founder of the Asteroid Mining Corporation (AMC). He admits pulling off such a feat is still a fair way off. Not only would it involve landing robots on a rock, but also remotely ...

Excitement for asteroid mining has dropped off a bit since it was attracting more investment in the early 2010s, but with NASA and SpaceX forging onward with plans to establish a presence on the ...

California-based AstroForge will ramp up its bid to commercialize mining in space with the first ... dock on the company’s target near-Earth asteroid, whose identity remains unknown.

It’s been a year since the Redmond, Wash.-based asteroid mining venture known as Planetary Resources was acquired by ConsenSys and pivoted to blockchain projects in space — but the idea ...

Neither Odin nor Vestri will conduct any actual asteroid mining, but should they succeed, they will have demonstrated the key stages of reaching an asteroid and getting in position to begin mining.

The Psyche mission is a huge step in figuring out what sort of metals are out there, and may answer questions about the Earth’s core. This U.S. Air Force Commander Helps Elon Musk’s Interns ...