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

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A U.S. asteroid-mining company has announced the target space rock for its upcoming test mission.

It was initially believed the asteroid, first detected on December 27, had about a 1 percent chance of colliding with Earth, but by Thursday, that chance had risen to 2.3 percent. On Wednesday, NASA ...

Alaskans are pretty familiar with a variety of resources that are regularly mined in the state, but perhaps not too familiar with the idea of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) mining.

The asteroid mining startup is to launch Odin mounted underneath Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 lunar lander mission, said Matthew Gialich, CEO and... Based in the Seattle area, Garrett covers the ...

Learn about your mission, objectives, and take a look at the world of Astronomics in this trailer for the game where top-down ...

that aims to one day mine rare metals in deep space. The company plans to launch a small spacecraft, called Odin, in late February to fly by an asteroid and snap images to investigate its surface.

Read our detailed Astronomics review here and decide if you want to jump into the aesthetically pleasing space mining ...