The first commercial spacecraft headed beyond the moon is on its way to deep space, but the mission is suffering from unknown ...

Tagging along on the pair’s launch was a second lunar-bound probe, but this one’s fortunes appear to be brighter thus far. On ...

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

Three private lunar landers are on their way to the moon right now, a surge of exploration never before seen in spaceflight ...

NASA's water-hunting Lunar Trailblazer probe is experiencing communication and power issues while it makes its way to the ...

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

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

Intuitive Machines’ Athena spacecraft launched atop a SpaceX rocket Wednesday, aiming to land closer to the moon’s south pole than any vehicle has traveled before.

"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." ...

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

The engineer cofounded the bold California startup AstroForge in 2022 with the aim of hunting for precious metals in space, and he is all too aware that success is not guaranteed. And, quite ...