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.

High Frontier will aim to validate the company’s approach to deep space mining, testing autonomous navigation systems and zero-gravity mining equipment for asteroid regolith excavation. In recent ...

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Asteroid mining and construction in orbit may prove to be the best way to colonize space rather than launching heavy payloads from Earth. Check out: 2 Dividend Legends To Hold Forever and Discover ...

The cable-cutter bag principle, developed by NASA in the 1990s, aims to efficiently collect material from asteroids. A net or bag is stretched over the asteroid's surface, using cables and cutting ...

One of these is the asteroid 16 Psyche which, according to NASA, could harbor massive amounts of iron and nickel. MIT space scientist Dr Linda Elkins-Tanton estimates the iron alone in 16 Psyche could ...

The space and equipment required to sustain life is better used for spare equipment and resource storage.” “Leaving Earth’s gravity requires a lot of energy, so mining missions would be better ...

While astronomers recently discovered a 33-foot-long asteroid called 2024 PT5, what’s really exciting is the growing interest in mining space rocks for their valuable resources.

The Didymos binary asteroid consists of the mountain-sized Didymos main body (about 780 m in diameter) and the Dimorphos secondary body (about 150 m in diameter), about the size of the Great Pyramid ...