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

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

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

Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

Asteroid mining might sound like something out of ... Odin will launch as a rideshare payload on Intuitive Machines' IM-3 lunar lander before slingshotting around the moon and out into space.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

But also because someone on this blue rock is working on a machine specifically designed ... and it is the work of a British space startup called Asteroid Mining Corporation (AMC).

The license covers the Odin mission, which will launch in early 2025 on board the next Intuitive Machines ... Space mining startup AstroForge aims to launch historic asteroid-landing mission ...

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 ...