The company is in a race against time to become the first to mine an asteroid for platinum and sell it on Earth for a whole lot of money, cashing in on the rapid commercialization of space.

AstroForge's ultimate aim is to send a spacecraft to an asteroid, land on it and use an onboard refinery to mine the asteroid for precious metals. But the technology is still very much at the ...

Asteroids represent a threat to Earth, but in the future they may be a boon, serving as sources of vast wealth and resources, and as orbital settlements and keystones of interplanetary trade. How ...

An asteroid the size of Manhattan’s Empire State Building will safely pass on April 13, 2029, in a ... [+] once every 5,000 to 10,000 years event. What is considered rare in astronomy is a ...

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 ...

ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since launch on 7 October. The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for ...

AstroForge, a US-based startup with plans to mine asteroids ... of Odin and is designed to return to the targeted metallic asteroid and dock with it by using magnets, as it is expected the ...

One of the strongest and most spectacular meteor showers of the year is currently active. The Geminid meteor shower, known ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before impact monitoring systems had registered its trajectory. When you purchase ...

Developer BeryMery and publisher: RockGame announced that Astrometica is coming to Steam Early Access on December 10, 2025.

AstroForge, a US-based startup with plans to mine asteroids, received on Monday the US Federal Communications ... The craft is about twice the size of Odin and is designed to return to the targeted ...

NASA says a bus-sized asteroid is about to make a close approach, coming within 148,000 miles of Earth. According to the space agency, the asteroid, named 2024 UQ1, measures approximately 32-feet ...