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 ...

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