"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...
A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.
A much more capable mission, NASA’s $1.2 billion Psyche spacecraft ... Others are more focused on what Odin means for asteroid mining in the present tense. “It’s probably the highest ...
As for AstroForge's Odin asteroid-mining scout, unfortunately, like the Lunar Trailblazer, Odin has also fallen out of ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission cost over $770 ... hopes that the price of space travel continues to go down. Even if asteroid mining isn’t possible today, or done by AstroForge, it may become ...
A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...
The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.
AstroForge's Odin asteroid probe, the box-shaped spaceraft at center right, is seen after launch beneath the private ...
The first commercial spacecraft headed beyond the moon is on its way to deep space, but the mission is suffering from unknown ...