AstroForge has identified asteroid 2022 OB5 as the destination for its Mission 2 spacecraft, named Odin, which is set to launch next month on a SpaceX rocket.

California-based AstroForge will ramp up its bid to commercialize mining ... Machines' upcoming IM-2 mission (also to put a small lander on the moon), enter deep space, perform a flyby of the ...

The primary goal, he said, is to make sure Odin turns on and communicates back to Earth. Mission success, Gialich told his team, is reaching deep space beyond the Moon to determine how well Odin's ...

A Big Job for Little Pay, But At Least the Bots Do the Heavy Lifting Astronomics is an asteroid mining adventure where you're trying to earn your way out of the asteroid belt, scavenging ...

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 ...

This artist's concept depicts the 140-mile-wide (226-kilometer-wide) asteroid Psyche, which lies in ... [+] the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Psyche is the focal point of NASA's ...

Scientists are hoping to rule out any chance of the asteroid impacting Earth in 2032 before it disappears from view. In September 2022, NASA successfully crashed a vending machine-sized spacecraft ...