AstroForge has announced a mission to land on a near-Earth asteroid, marking the first private space mining plan beyond the ...

Asteroid-mining startup AstroForge plans to make history ... as a ridealong on Houston company Intuitive Machines' IM-3 moon mission. That launch will send AstroForge's 440-pound (200 kilograms ...

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 ...

AstroForge, a US-based startup with plans to mine asteroids, has raised $40 million to launch its third mission in 2025, as a ride-along on Intuitive Machines’ IM-3 moon mission. The launch is ...

Scheduled to launch in 2025 aboard Intuitive Machines’ third mission, the 200kg Vestri spacecraft is designed to dock with a near-Earth asteroid and analyze its composition. This mission could make ...

Many contain precious metals that, someday, companies hope to extract. “Every time they’re talking about asteroid mining, they talk about mini-moons,” Dr. Spoto said. A metal-rich space rock ...

The Earth is getting a second moon for a limited time beginning the end of. An asteroid will come close enough to Earth to ...

In a bit of ominous news befitting a Friday the 13th: It turns out that the asteroid Apophis could have a very small chance of colliding into Earth in five years, when it is expected to make a ...

Asteroid-mining startup AstroForge plans to make history next year. The California company announced Tuesday (Aug. 20) that it aims to launch its third mission in 2025, as a ridealong on Houston ...

Many contain precious metals that, someday, companies hope to extract. “Every time they’re talking about asteroid mining, they talk about mini-moons,” Spoto said. A metal-rich space rock ...