As an asteroid miner in Astronomics, which is now in early access on Steam, the precious resources you collect from mining space rocks will make massive profits for the Cube Corporation ...

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

His venture may seem far out, but asteroid mining CEO Matt Gialich has no illusions. The engineer cofounded the bold California startup AstroForge in 2022 with the aim of hunting for precious ...

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O ...

But that's not all. The scientific study of 16 Psyche may indirectly help make asteroid mining — a science fiction-sounding concept that literally involves extracting rare minerals, water or ...

testing autonomous navigation systems and zero-gravity mining equipment for asteroid regolith excavation. The full journey of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx: from launch to the return of asteroid sample NASA ...

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction (and it is, as asteroid mining was a central theme in the 2013 Nebula Award-winning book called "2312"). But the team believes that with advances in ...

Asteroid mining can be pretty chill, except for that ticking clock. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Earth. It's a great ...