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

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

“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 ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

A team of Chinese scientists has created a six-legged "space mining robot" inspired by insects, which could be used for ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

Reality does not instill the same confidence one sees in sci-fi depictions of scenarios in which near-Earth objects like asteroids and comets approach our planet. In “Deep Impact” and ...

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