Space companies need Starship's super-heavy heft to fly human habitats and mining equipment to the moon. The rocket just ...

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

His venture may seem far out, but asteroid mining CEO Matt Gialich has no illusions. The engineer cofounded the bold California startup AstroForge in 2022 with the aim of hunting for precious metals ...

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O ...

California-based space company AstroForge launched the first-ever mining mission to an asteroid. The mission is in serious ...

Gold mining in Peru’s Amazon is now destroying carbon-storing peatlands at an alarming rate. In just two years, over half of ...

There have been many discussions about the legal issues surrounding mining in space. The US unilaterally allows for the commercial extraction of material from celestial bodies, and other countries ...

Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head ...

Higher latitudes on the moon with slopes facing the poles "are not only scientifically interesting but also pose less ...

There are plenty of upsides to the pursuit of asteroid mining, said Paul Stimers, an attorney and space policy expert with Holland & Knight. There are, however, some key questions hanging over the ...