AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new ...

Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...

Asteroid mining might sound like something out of science fiction, but experts say it could be the path to out-of-this-world wealth. According to Matt Gialich, founder of space mining company ...

AstroForce has received a commercial license for operating and communicating with a mission headed to a near-Earth asteroid, ...

We often envision filling space with vast megastructures people might live on in the future, and mining asteroids to provide ...

Credit: ESA-Science Office The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid ... After working as a ranger with the National Park Service, he started a reporting career after ...

Asteroid mining is not a far-flung idea, Dano believes. “There are currently millions of asteroids in our solar system, and about 2 million of them are larger than 1 kilometer. The resources ...

Startup aims to mine asteroids for valuable minerals at a lower cost and with a smaller carbon footprint than mining on Earth. Credit: AstroForge Asteroid mining startup AstroForge has received a ...

The craft is about twice the size of Odin and is designed to return to the targeted metallic asteroid and dock with it by using magnets, as it is expected the asteroid will be rich in iron.

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

Related: Space mining startup AstroForge aims to launch historic asteroid-landing mission in 2025 The company's first space mission, Brokkr-1, was a cubesat that launched in April 2023 and ...