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

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 ...

“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 ...

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The size of these asteroids, of course, is what makes them dangerous. Near-earth objects are defined as anything within 93 million miles of Earth. Anything over 500 feet in diameter in that range ...

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 ...