Two laws on opposite sides of the Atlantic have given private companies legal cover to extract resources from asteroids, but peer-reviewed economic models and NASA’s own research suggest the path from ...

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

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 ...

Dublin, March 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Asteroid Mining Market Report 2026" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The asteroid mining market is set to experience exponential ...

A California-based space company called AstroForge recently launched what it described as the first “commercial deep space mission in history.” That’s kind of a broad descriptor. Its actual mission is ...

Asteroid mining companies are finally getting off the ground, and that is raising some concerns about the impact those activities will have on the space environment. A new paper published in Acta ...

Asteroid mining seems simple in theory. A spacecraft flies up to a giant rock in space, scoops out some material, and either processes it on site or returns it back to a huge central processing ...

Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ambitious economic goals. As concerns over Earth’s limited resources continue ...

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet. Odin is around 270,000 miles (434,522 kilometers) away from Earth, on a ...

Using an instrument called HiPERCAM attached to the Gran Telescopio Canarias in La Palma, Spain, a team of researchers recently found that the near-Earth asteroid 2022 OB 5 is rotating once every ...

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