T his February, California-based asteroid mining startup AstroForge embarked on what it hoped would be one of the most important launches in history: the first commercial deep space mission ...

AstroForge is banking that 2022 OB5 is an M-type asteroid, potentially rich with platinum. And if Odin’s camera can confirm that the space rock contains the valuable metal, a future AstroForge ...

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.

VCs See Dollar Signs in Space, Commit $40 Million to Asteroid Mining Company AstroForge's mission of landing on and mining asteroids has hit some snags, including technical difficulties during ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare minerals from the many celestial bodies above us.

A U.S. asteroid-mining company has announced the target space rock for its upcoming test mission. Odin will separate shortly after the Falcon 9 upper stage fires its engines to head for the moon ...

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 ...

It may be possible, though, to someday launch asteroid mining missions from Mars’ orbit, as suggested by a 2022 study in Planetary and Space Science. In this study, researchers claim that a station ...

More information: Evie Kendal et al, Technical Challenges and Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI) for Asteroid Mining and Planetary Defense, Aerospace (2025). DOI: 10.3390/aerospace12060544 ...

And so commercial asteroid mining seems like a stretch, and indeed, other similarly minded startups have come and gone. But it turns out that I did hear from Acain and Gialich again about their ...

This February, California-based asteroid mining startup AstroForge embarked on what it hoped would be one of the most important launches in history: the first commercial deep space mission ...