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

Researchers from the China University of Mining and Technology develops China's first space mining robot. Photo: Screenshot ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

“I'm very excited. I'm an investor in [AstroForge], which we believe is at the forefront of trying to commercially mine near-Earth asteroids for platinum group and other exotic metals,” explorer ...

Now the company is set to actually travel toward a near-Earth asteroid in deep space ... The legalities of mining asteroids and selling their resources remain uncertain. In 2015, President ...

California-based space company AstroForge launched what it claimed to be the first "commercial deep space mission in history.

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some ...

US startup Karman+ has raised $20m in seed funding to further its mission of mining space resources from near-Earth asteroids. The cash injection will be used to accelerate progress on High Frontier, ...

Mining asteroids is a new frontier ... and — unless you’re counting against the odds — they are nowhere near earth. This NASA page tracks the closest approaches of these rocks, which ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth ...

An artist's impression shows a generic asteroid. Detecting the threat of near-Earth objects such as asteroids that could cause harm to our planet is a primary focus of NASA and other space ...