It was to swoop past 2022 OB5, a rocky asteroid island adrift in a starry sea, and take photographs of it. Odin successfully left its ride, headed into space—and vanished. The asteroid scout had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meteorite chemistry shows which primitive asteroids may hold usable metals or water, and why most space mining remains difficult. ...

For years, the future of space mining has been framed around asteroids drifting through the Solar System. But this episode explores a more grounded and much bigger possibility: the Moon may be the ...

TransAstra’s “New Moon” mission aims to transform space manufacturing and research.

Researchers tried to figure out whether asteroid 16 Psyche, which NASA is visiting in 2029, is the remnant of a planet's core ...

TransAstra has developed a plan to bag an asteroid and move it to a stable near-Earth orbit for processing. Reading time 2 minutes There are roughly 250 small, near-Earth asteroids teeming with ...

Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbour valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a ...

Odin was dying in the dark. The angular 265-pound spacecraft with solar panel wings, giving it the appearance of a cyberpunk angel, was launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on February 26, 2025. It ...

This is a colored view of the C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu, seen by the ONC-T camera on board of Hayabusa2. Source - ISAS/JAXA, CC SA 4.0. This is a colored view of the C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu, ...

A new generation of rockets aims to unlock new business models in space, including the science fiction dream of extracting resources from asteroids. Researchers are taking a closer look at asteroids ...

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small asteroids actually made of, in measurable detail? Researchers at the Institute ...