SpaceX’s IPO filing mentions asteroid mining as a potential long-term market as experts say cheaper launches and water ...

Space is full of treasures. Literally. If we were able to extract the resources from the rocks in the asteroid belt alone, we ...

In April 2023, a satellite the size of a microwave launched into space. Its goal: to get ready to mine asteroids. Although the mission, backed by a company called AstroForge, ran into problems, it’s ...

Asteroids are space rocks that can range in size from dust particles to over 500 miles in diameter. There are several small groups of them in or near Earth’s solar orbit, including the Apollo Group, ...

AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new frontier for precious metals. Reading time 7 minutes California startup AstroForge ...

Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbor valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a ...

Billions of years ago, asteroids hitting Earth deposited metals crucial to technological advancement. Could we find even more of these metals by mining asteroids in space? Learn more in this clip from ...

The idea of mining an asteroid probably sounds like something right out of a science fiction movie, but as it turns out, it’s something that we’ll need to become really good at as we aim to extend our ...

A new generation of rockets aims to unlock new business models in space, including the science fiction dream of extracting resources from asteroids. Researchers are taking a closer look at asteroids ...