"Odin's role is to gather critical imagery of the target asteroid, preparing the way for our next mission, Vestri, which will ...

California-based AstroForge will ramp up its bid to commercialize mining in space with ... Vestri will separate once in space and continue to the target asteroid, closely studying its composition.

Asteroid prospecting company AstroForge has been awarded the first-ever commercial license for operating and communicating ...

Imagine a future where Earth is a zone reserved for living, and heavy industries and mining has moved off-world ... organisms can be utilized in space for the extraction of iron from Lunar, Martian, ...

Deep Space Mining is a company who sees the next step of humanity in the asteroids. They have a set of goals that including launching unmanned spacecraft to mine elements on asteroids and become ...

Mining ocean resources needed for electric cars and other devices is currently a hot issue of dispute. Final resolution of ...

In an update from NASA posted online the space agency today said that a team of 30 engineers and technicians ... in orbit mapping and studying the asteroid’s properties. A team prepares NASA ...

For example, the Space Capable Asteroid Robotic Explorer is a first-of-its-kind climbing robot with potential asteroid mining applications developed through a partnership between Japan's Tohoku ...

A U.S. asteroid-mining company has announced the target space rock for its upcoming test mission. Odin will separate shortly after the Falcon 9 upper stage fires its engines to head for the moon.