AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new ...

When the ancient 'God of Chaos' asteroid skims close to Earth it could have a major reaction and be transformed.

Asteroid 2024 UQ impacted Earth above the Pacific Ocean. The space rock was about 3 feet (1 meter) wide. It was detected by ...

Everyone’s focused on the risk of this object one day hitting Earth, but just getting close to us may do extreme things to it ...

We often envision filling space with vast megastructures people might live on in the future, and mining asteroids to provide ...

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In 2025, the company will launch the Odin mission to surveil a potentially metal-rich asteroid in deep space with the intention of one day mining the minerals found there. Odin will launch as a ...

Though the asteroid Apophis poses no danger in the near future, Ramses (named after the pharaohs of the same name, which ...

On that day, it will pass just 30,600 kilometres (19,000 miles ... Its shortest axis measures about 170 metres. The asteroid ...

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis.

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of ...

A sliver of Martian rock that once lay hidden in a university drawer has helped researchers better understand the Red ...