This February, California-based asteroid mining startup AstroForge embarked ... Strapped to the back of a SpaceX Falcon 9, the company's washing machine-sized satellite (dubbed Odin) was bound ...

Asteroid-mining startup AstroForge plans to make history ... as a ridealong on Houston company Intuitive Machines' IM-3 moon mission. That launch will send AstroForge's 440-pound (200 kilograms ...

But with asteroid mining, no company has yet accomplished ... as Odin takes off on board a lunar lander developed by Intuitive Machines, AstroForge will have perhaps made it further than any ...

Asteroid mining could become a lucrative business ... set to launch as a rideshare payload on Intuitive Machines’ IM-3 lunar lander in late 2025. The company also scored an experimental license ...

Intuitive Machines announced Jan. 28 that ... metallic asteroid that is most desirable for any mining operations. Another advantage of the asteroid is that, at the time Odin makes its flyby ...

The company's plan was to send its washing machine-sized spacecraft, dubbed Odin, to visit an asteroid millions of miles from Earth and scout it as a potential mining site. But mere hours after ...

As concerns over Earth’s limited resources continue to grow, some entrepreneurs are eagerly looking beyond our planet to establish the next big business venture: asteroid mining. The prospect of ...

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction (and it is, as asteroid mining was a central theme in the 2013 Nebula Award-winning book called “2312”). But the team believes that with advances in ...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has long posited that the world's first trillionaire will emerge from asteroid mining. With advancements in space technology and resource extraction, this prediction ...