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

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

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

Last year, astronomers detected the near-earth ... returned to Earth (in September 2023), contained organic compounds and hydrated minerals. These samples support the theory that asteroids and ...

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 ...

Companies are landing on the moon—or trying to. These players all have exciting goals for innovation on the final frontier.

an astronomer at Queens University Belfast and a member of one of Nasa's sky surveys that searches and tracks Near Earth Objects (NEOs). These are asteroids whose orbit brings them within 195 ...