YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...
A private space mission designed to push the boundaries of deep space exploration has encountered major technical failures ...
A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.
The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed ... a microwave oven-size spacecraft toward an asteroid later this week, its goal to kick off a future where precious metals are mined around ...
"In many ways, Odin has become both a pioneer and a teacher — continuing its mission by informing our future endeavors, even ...
But with asteroid mining, no company has yet accomplished ... can confirm that the space rock contains the valuable metal, a future AstroForge mission may aim to extract, refine and ferry the ...
California-based space company AstroForge launched the first-ever mining mission to an asteroid. The mission is in serious ...
AstroForge's Odin asteroid probe, the box-shaped spaceraft at center right, is seen after launch beneath the private ...
Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.