"Odin's role is to gather critical imagery of the target asteroid, preparing the way for our next mission, Vestri, which will ...

Mining ocean resources needed for electric cars and other devices is currently a hot issue of dispute. Final resolution of ...

Alaskans are pretty familiar with a variety of resources that are regularly mined in the state, but perhaps not too familiar ...

The call today is for binding rules to protect the orbits of Earth, Moon, and Mars from space debris contamination. Initiatives need to be formulated for effective, sustainable, and equitable ...

California-based AstroForge will ramp up its bid to commercialize mining in space with ... Vestri will separate once in space and continue to the target asteroid, closely studying its composition.

Bezos envisions a trillion people living in giant space stations across the solar system. Other space startups have ambitions including asteroid ... with the 1967 Outer Space Treaty.

Eric Mack is a reporter covering science, sustainability and space. It’s about as wide ... Excitement for asteroid mining has dropped off a bit since it was attracting more investment in the ...

Outer space ... resources from space and bringing them back to Earth purely because they are financially valuable. The latter question affects the burgeoning field of asteroid mining.

Managing lunar dust will be a crucial factor in ensuring sustainable and minimally disruptive mining practices. The Outer Space Treaty (1967) makes it clear no nation can claim to "own" the moon ...

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.