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

AstroForce has received a commercial license for operating and communicating with a mission headed to a near-Earth asteroid, ...

Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...

Asteroid mining might sound like something out of ... Odin will launch as a rideshare payload on Intuitive Machines' IM-3 lunar lander before slingshotting around the moon and out into space.

Startup aims to mine asteroids for valuable minerals at a lower cost and with a smaller carbon footprint than mining on Earth. Credit: AstroForge Asteroid mining startup AstroForge has received a ...

When your spacecraft is way out there racing along millions of miles from Earth and checking an asteroid for rich metals, one ...

Asteroid mining is not a far-flung idea, Dano believes. “There are currently millions of asteroids in our solar system, and about 2 million of them are larger than 1 kilometer. The resources ...

The craft is about twice the size of Odin and is designed to return to the targeted metallic asteroid and dock with it by using magnets, as it is expected the asteroid will be rich in iron.

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

The license covers the Odin mission, which will launch in early 2025 on board the next Intuitive Machines ... Space mining startup AstroForge aims to launch historic asteroid-landing mission ...

Related: Space mining startup AstroForge aims to launch historic asteroid-landing mission in 2025 The company's first space mission, Brokkr-1, was a cubesat that launched in April 2023 and ...