As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...

Last week, California-based space company AstroForge launched what it claimed was the first "commercial deep space mission ... asteroid millions of miles from Earth and scout it as a potential ...

A space exploration mission to study an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into three years ago has taken stunning bonus images of Mars and its moon Deimos en route to its final ...

London-based company Asteroid Mining Corporation plans to send its SCAR-E robot to the moon in a future mission headed by Tokyo-based iSpace. The six-legged robot will trek across craters on the lunar ...

A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining ... It will take close-up images of the surface to confirm it ...

(CNN) — His venture may seem far out, but asteroid mining CEO Matt Gialich ... platinum based on the pictures Odin delivers. And even if it does, a future mission that travels back to 2022 ...

The California-based space startup, which aims to mine near-Earth asteroids for metal, lost its Mission 1 and Mission 2 spacecraft before either could test the firm's mining technology.

A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining ... and green technology. Image: Odin will take 300 days to ...