Coal miners descend feets below the surface to extract the valuable black diamond, facing extreme conditions and utilizing ...

"Odin's role is to gather critical imagery of the target asteroid, preparing the way for our next mission, Vestri, which will aim to land on the asteroid and begin extraction." ...

The primary goal, he said, is to make sure Odin turns on and communicates back to Earth. Mission success, Gialich told his ...

Recent years have seen a significant rise in private investments in space, with institutional investors and family offices ...

Deep Space Mining is a company who sees the next step of humanity in the asteroids. They have a set of goals that including launching unmanned spacecraft to mine elements on asteroids and become ...

And few places are as outlandish as the ocean deep. But deep-sea mining appears poised to get a boost from the incoming Trump administration, according to The Wall Street Journal. A string of ...

In this case, deep space is defined by the International ... But the technology is still very much at the proof-of-concept ...

California-based AstroForge will ramp up its bid to commercialize mining in space with the first ... to put a small lander on the moon), enter deep space, perform a flyby of the asteroid target ...

The latest on the missions plunging far beyond of Earth's orbit, including Voyager I, the Parker Solar Probe, and JUICE. By Laura Baisas By Popular Science Team By Tom Hawking By Lauren Leffer By ...

In October 2023, parliament approved a PAN bill imposing a moratorium on deep sea mining in Portuguese waters until 2050. But ...

A U.S. asteroid-mining company has announced the target space rock for its upcoming test mission. Odin will separate shortly after the Falcon 9 upper stage fires its engines to head for the moon.

A U.S. asteroid-mining company has announced the target space rock for its upcoming test mission. California-based AstroForge has identified asteroid 2022 OB5 as the destination for its Mission 2 ...