Other companies, like Los Angeles-headquartered TransAstra and China-based Origin ... Its all-or-nothing, lower-cost approach may help push asteroid mining closer to reality.

California-based AstroForge will ramp up its bid to commercialize mining in space with the first ... dock on the company’s target near-Earth asteroid, whose identity remains unknown.

Companies like AstroForge and TransAstra are already investigating asteroid mining, seeing the potential for extracting rare elements such as platinum and palladium, which are vital for industries ...

Excitement for asteroid mining has dropped off a bit since it was attracting more investment in the early 2010s, but with NASA and SpaceX forging onward with plans to establish a presence on the ...

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 ...