No company has ever achieved what asteroid mining startup AstroForge is about to set out to do. Success is anything but ...

Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander, named Athena, snapped some amazing shots of its home planet shortly after launching ...

OB5 is said to consist of raw materials that could be worth mining. The Odin probe is to take a closer look at the celestial ...

The probe, known as Odin, is set to travel into deep space to make a pass by of an asteroid known as 2022 OB5 to detect if it ...

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...

The Falcon 9 rocket, packed with exploratory payloads, is scheduled to blast off at 7:17 p.m. ET on Wednesday, February 26.

SpaceX will launch Intuitive Machine’s Athena lunar lander toward the moon’s south pole on Wednesday, marking the latest ...

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 second mission would land on the asteroid and test for platinum and other elements - the first mining expeditions could ...

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

Elon Musk smiles during a new conference in 2020 after a SpaceX rocket test flight at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape ...

A decade ago, news stories were aflutter about the wealth promised by asteroid mining companies. But things didn't quite work ...