SpaceX’s IPO filing mentions asteroid mining as a potential long-term market as experts say cheaper launches and water ...

Asteroid mining seems simple in theory. A spacecraft flies up to a giant rock in space, scoops out some material, and either processes it on site or returns it back to a huge central processing ...

TransAstra Corporation has laid out a plan to capture entire asteroids using inflatable bags, tow them closer to Earth, and extract water from them using concentrated sunlight. The approach, developed ...

A Japanese probe landed a new observation robot on an asteroid on Wednesday as it pursues a mission to shed light on the origins of the solar system. The French-German Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout, ...

Starbase, a space launch facility located at the southern tip of Texas, U.S. The massive Starship rocket, carrying Interlune’s lunar regolith excavation equipment ‘Harvester,’ roars into the sky. The ...

Using an instrument called HiPERCAM attached to the Gran Telescopio Canarias in La Palma, Spain, a team of researchers recently found that the near-Earth asteroid 2022 OB 5 is rotating once every ...