Odin, a small spacecraft built by U.S. space mining company AstroForge, piggybacked on the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ...

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.

Launch is scheduled for summer 2026. Astroscale's 660-pound (300 kilograms) APS-R Refueler spacecraft will head for the ...

During the journey, the Fram2 crew members were slated to carry out various research projects, including capturing images of auroras from space and ... with Bitcoin mining operations and is ...

Showings of his art are being sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA ... moon that arrives at the moon in ballistic capture … that is, a spacecraft using this would be automatically ...

With space debris an ever growing problem, Astroscale has announced the successful completion of Phase 3A of its ELSA-d mission (End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration). It successfully ...

It will get a fresh chance with its next spacecraft, Vestri, which is slated to launch on the IM-3 lunar mission in late 2025. What Lies Ahead in the Space Mining Race Despite the high price tag of ...

Spacecraft near the Earth use large solar panels to harness the sun for the electricity needed to run their communications systems and science instruments. However, the farther into space you go ...

WHILE IT LOOKS LIKE A COMET, THIS APPEARS TO BE SPACE DEBRIS REENTERING THE EARTH ... p.m. "The event seen last night over California was a spacecraft reentry," NASA confirmed to KCRA 3.

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on. Rendering of the Gaia telescope in ... difficult to capture the breadth ...

At the European Space Agency's ESTEC installation ... to the moon that arrives at the moon in ballistic capture … that is, a spacecraft using this would be automatically captured into lunar ...